ReviewJournal of internal medicine2022
Advances in the Omicron variant development.
Review in Journal of internal medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 79 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
79 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 172 citations in OpenAlex.
- New variants of COVID-19 (XBB.1.5 and XBB.1.16, the "Arcturus"): A review of highly questioned concerns, a brief comparison between different peaks in the COVID-19 pandemic, with a focused systematic review on expert recommendations for prevention, vaccination, and treatment measures in the general population and at-risk groups.Immunity, inflammation and disease · 2024Pooled it
- Role of previous infection with SARS-CoV-2 in protecting against omicron reinfections and severe complications of COVID-19 compared to pre-omicron variants: a systematic review.BMC infectious diseases · 2023Pooled it
- SARS-CoV-2-neutralising monoclonal antibodies to prevent COVID-19.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022Pooled it
- Development and validation of a prognostic model based on clinical laboratory biomarkers to predict admission to ICU in Omicron variant-infected hospitalized patients complicated with myocardial injury.Frontiers in immunology · 2024Trial
- Adaptive Fourier decomposition-based time-frequency analysis of COVID-19 epidemic trends and policy interventions in Washington D.C., with comparative validation in London.Journal of thoracic disease · 2026Article
- The Shifting Paradigm of Monoclonal Antibodies in COVID-19 Management: From Early Triumphs to Viral Resistance and Future Perspectives.Antibodies (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Alterations in MicroRNA and Cytokine Expressions in Placental and Amniotic Tissues of COVID-19 Affected Pregnant Women.The Kaohsiung journal of medical sciences · 2026Article
- IL-6 Receptor Antagonists and Severe Post-COVID-19 Outcomes: An Emulated Target Trial.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
- An Emerging Global Threat After The COVID-19 Pandemic: Monkeypox Similarities and Differences.Polish journal of microbiology · 2026Review
- Coronavirus disease 2019-related risk factors for postoperative delirium: a secondary analysis of an observational cohort study.International journal of surgery (London, England) · 2025Article
- Identification of mathematical patterns in genomic spectrograms linked to variant classification in complete SARS-CoV-2 sequences.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Reduction of extracellular vimentin in blood provides protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection.Virulence · 2025Article
- A retrospective risk factor analysis in psychiatric inpatients with COVID-19 from 2020 to 2023 at a neuropsychiatric hospital in Tokyo.PCN reports : psychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2025Article
- Mutation profiling, evolution analysis, molecular dynamics simulation, and functional characterization of Omicron sub-strains.Virus research · 2025Article
- The association of COVID- 19 parental immunization and transmission of disease to offspring: a retrospective study.Italian journal of pediatrics · 2025Observational
- Advances in Virus Biorecognition and Detection Techniques for the Surveillance and Prevention of Infectious Diseases.Biosensors · 2025Review
- Comparative analysis of croup severity and treatment in pediatric patient: a study of COVID-19 positive vs. negative cases during peak Omicron.BMC pediatrics · 2025Article
- Disparities in anti-SARS-CoV-2 reactivity according to vaccines administered in the era of omicron in Cameroon: Lessons for future outbreak response.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- Safety and Efficacy of Paxlovid in Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Patients with COVID-19.Current medicinal chemistry · 2025Article
- Insights into the role of dynamical features in protein complex formation: The case of SARS-CoV-2 spike binding with ACE2.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2025Article
19 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV)-2 has spread worldwide, leading the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare a pandemic, on 11 March 2020. Variants of concern have appeared at regular intervals-Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and now Omicron. Omicron variant, first identified in Botswana in November 2021, is rapidly becoming the dominant circulating variant. In this review, we provide an overview regarding the molecular profile of the Omicron variant, epidemiology, transmissibility, the impact on vaccines, as well as vaccine escape, and finally, we report the pharmacological agents able to block the endocellular entry of SARS-CoV-2 or to inhibit its viral replication. The Omicron has more than 50 mutations, of which the spike protein has 26-35 amino acids different from the original SARS-CoV-2 virus or the Delta, some of which are associated with humoral immune escape potential and greater transmissibility. Omicron has a significant growth advantage over Delta, leading to rapid spread with higher incidence levels. The disease so far has been mild compared to the Delta. The two vaccination doses offer little or no protection against Omicron infection while the booster doses provide significant protection against mild illness and likely offer even greater levels of protection against serious illness. Recently, new oral antiviral agents such as molnupiravir and paxlovid have been approved and represent important therapeutic alternatives to antiviral remdesivir. In addition, monoclonal antibodies such as casirivimab/imdevimab bind different epitopes of the spike protein receptor; is this class of drugs effective against the Omicron variant? However, more research is needed to define whether Omicron is indeed more infectious and whether the vaccines, monoclonal antibodies, and antivirals currently available are effective.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.