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ReviewJournal of drug targeting2022

Recent highlights on Omicron as a new SARS-COVID-19 variant: evolution, genetic mutation, and future perspectives.

Pooja Khairnar, Mukesh Soni, Mayank Handa, Yassine Riadi, Prashant Kesharwani, Rahul Shukla

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Review in Journal of drug targeting, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Pooja KhairnarDepartment of Pharmaceutics, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research-Raebareli, Lucknow, India.
Mukesh SoniDepartment of Pharmaceutics, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research-Raebareli, Lucknow, India.
Mayank HandaDepartment of Pharmaceutics, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research-Raebareli, Lucknow, India.
Yassine RiadiDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Al-Kharj, Saudi Arabia.
Prashant KesharwaniDepartment of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India.ORCID 0000-0002-0890-769X
Rahul ShuklaDepartment of Pharmaceutics, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research-Raebareli, Lucknow, India.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

COVID-19 has affected the lives of billions of people and is a causative agent for millions of deaths. After 23 months of the first reported case of COVID-19, on 25th November 2020, a new SARS-COVID-19 variant, i.e. Omicron was reported with a WHO tagline of VoC that trembled the world with its infectivity rate. This fifth VoC raised the concern about neutralising ability and adequate control of SARS-COVID-19 infection due to mass vaccination drive (nearly more than 4.7 billion individuals got vaccinated globally till December 2021). However, the present scenario of VoCs highlights the importance of vaccination and public health measures that need to be followed strictly to prevent the fatality from Omicron. The world still needs to overcome the hesitancy that poses a major barrier to the implementation of vaccination. This review highlights the SARS-COVID-19 situation and discusses in detail the mutational events that occurred at a cellular level in different variants over time. This article is dedicated to the scientific findings reported during the recent outbreak of 2019-2022 and describes their symptoms, disease, spread, treatment, and preventive action advised. The article also focuses on the treatment options available for Covid-19 and the update of Omicron by expert agencies.

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COVID-19SARS-CoV-2Evolution, MolecularHumansMutationinfectionmutationOmicronSARS-COVID 19vaccinationvirusWHO

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PMID35311601
PMCPMC9115780

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