ReviewThe Journal of general virology2021
SARS-CoV-2 one year on: evidence for ongoing viral adaptation.
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104 citing papers in PubMed, 182 citations in OpenAlex.
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- SARS-CoV-2 cellular coinfection is limited by superinfection exclusion.Journal of virology · 2025Article
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- Genomic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in the Andean Community (2020-2024): integrating regional sequencing efforts from Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia through "ORAS-CONHU" program.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Quantitatively analyzing the relationship between non-pharmaceutical interventions and the direction of virus evolution using a dynamic model.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
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- Chronic infections can generate SARS-CoV-2-like bursts of viral evolution without epistasis.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Insights into the Replication Kinetics Profiles of Malaysian SARS-CoV-2 Variant Alpha, Beta, Delta, and Omicron in Vero E6 Cell Line.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- A metagenomic investigation of the faecal RNA virome structure of asymptomatic chickens obtained from a commercial farm in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa.BMC genomics · 2024Article
- On the SARS-CoV-2 Variants.Infectious disease reports · 2024Article
- Properties and Mechanisms of Deletions, Insertions, and Substitutions in the Evolutionary History of SARS-CoV-2.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- Clearance of persistent SARS-CoV-2 associates with increased neutralizing antibodies in advanced HIV disease post-ART initiation.Nature communications · 2024Article
- SARS-CoV-2 infection in immunosuppression evolves sub-lineages which independently accumulate neutralization escape mutations.Virus evolution · 2024Article
- Evolution and neutralization escape of the SARS-CoV-2 BA.2.86 subvariant.Nature communications · 2023Article
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Abstract
SARS-CoV-2 is thought to have originated in the human population from a zoonotic spillover event. Infection in humans results in a variety of outcomes ranging from asymptomatic cases to the disease COVID-19, which can have significant morbidity and mortality, with over two million confirmed deaths worldwide as of January 2021. Over a year into the pandemic, sequencing analysis has shown that variants of SARS-CoV-2 are being selected as the virus continues to circulate widely within the human population. The predominant drivers of genetic variation within SARS-CoV-2 are single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) caused by polymerase error, potential host factor driven RNA modification, and insertion/deletions (indels) resulting from the discontinuous nature of viral RNA synthesis. While many mutations represent neutral 'genetic drift' or have quickly died out, a subset may be affecting viral traits such as transmissibility, pathogenicity, host range, and antigenicity of the virus. In this review, we summarise the current extent of genetic change in SARS-CoV-2, particularly recently emerging variants of concern, and consider the phenotypic consequences of this viral evolution that may impact the future trajectory of the pandemic.
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