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ReviewVaccines2024

Subsequent Waves of Convergent Evolution in SARS-CoV-2 Genes and Proteins.

Daniele Focosi, Pietro Giorgio Spezia, Fabrizio Maggi

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Review in Vaccines, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from 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.

2 · The registry

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Evolution of a fuzzy ribonucleoprotein complex in viral assembly.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Daniele FocosiNorth-Western Tuscany Blood Bank, Pisa University Hospital, 56124 Pisa, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-8811-195X
Pietro Giorgio SpeziaLaboratory of Virology and Laboratory of Biosecurity, National Institute of Infectious Diseases Lazzaro Spallanzani-IRCCS, 00149 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-6743-014X
Fabrizio MaggiLaboratory of Virology and Laboratory of Biosecurity, National Institute of Infectious Diseases Lazzaro Spallanzani-IRCCS, 00149 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-7489-5271

Funding

Italian Ministry of Health Ricerca Corrente-Linea 1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Beginning in 2022, following widespread infection and vaccination among the global population, the SARS-CoV-2 virus mainly evolved to evade immunity derived from vaccines and past infections. This review covers the convergent evolution of structural, nonstructural, and accessory proteins in SARS-CoV-2, with a specific look at common mutations found in long-lasting infections that hint at the virus potentially reverting to an enteric sarbecovirus type.

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COVID-19evolutionSARS-CoV-2Spike

Identifiers

PMID39204013
PMCPMC11358953

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