• Preventing a cluster from becoming a new wave in settings with zero community COVID-19 cases 

      Abeysuriya, Romesh G.; Delport, Dominic; Stuart, Robyn M.; Sacks-Davis, Rachel; Kerr, Cliff C.; Mistry, Dina; Klein, Daniel J.; Hellard, Margaret; Scott, Nick
      Published 2022
      BackgroundIn settings with zero community transmission, any new SARS-CoV-2 outbreaks are likely to be the result of random incursions. The level of restrictions in place at the time of the incursion is likely to considerably ...
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    • Replacement of the Gamma by the Delta variant in Brazil: Impact of lineage displacement on the ongoing pandemic 

      Giovanetti, Marta; Fonseca, Vagner; Wilkinson, Eduan; Tegally, Houriiyah; San, Emmanuel James; Althaus, Christian L; Xavier, Joilson; Nanev Slavov, Svetoslav; Viala, Vincent Louis; Ranieri Jerônimo Lima, Alex; Ribeiro, Gabriela; Souza-Neto, Jayme A; Fukumasu, Heidge; Lehmann Coutinho, Luiz; Venancio da Cunha, Rivaldo; Freitas, Carla; Campelo de A E Melo, Carlos F; Navegantes de Araújo, Wildo; Do Carmo Said, Rodrigo Fabiano; Almiron, Maria; de Oliveira, Tulio; Coccuzzo Sampaio, Sandra; Elias, Maria Carolina; Covas, Dimas Tadeu; Holmes, Edward C; Lourenço, José; Kashima, Simone; de Alcantara, Luiz Carlos Junior
      Published 2022
      The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic in Brazil was driven mainly by the spread of Gamma (P.1), a locally emerged variant of concern (VOC) that was first detected in early January 2021. This variant was estimated ...
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    • Virome characterization of game animals in China reveals a spectrum of emerging pathogens 

      He, Wan-Ting; Hou, Xin; Zhao, Jin; Sun, Jiumeng; He, Haijian; Si, Wei; Wang, Jing; Jiang, Zhiwen; Yan, Ziqing; Xing, Gang; Lu, Meng; Suchard, Marc A.; Ji, Xiang; Gong, Wenjie; He, Biao; Li, Jun; Lemey, Philippe; Guo, Deyin; Tu, Changchun; Holmes, Edward C.; Shi, Mang; Su, Shuo
      Published 2022
      Game animals are wildlife species traded and consumed as food, and potential reservoirs for SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2. We performed a meta-transcriptomic analysis of 1941 game animals, representing 18 species and five mammalian ...
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    • Simulating Transmission Scenarios of the Delta Variant of SARS-CoV-2 in Australia 

      Chang, Sheryl L.; Cliff, Oliver M.; Zachreson, Cameron; Prokopenko, Mikhail
      Published 2022
      An outbreak of the Delta (B.1.617.2) variant of SARS-CoV-2 that began around mid-June 2021 in Sydney, Australia, quickly developed into a nation-wide epidemic. The ongoing epidemic is of major concern as the Delta variant ...
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    • Diversity and evolution of the animal virome 

      Harvey, Erin; Holmes, Edward C.
      Published 2022
      The COVID-19 pandemic has given the study of virus evolution and ecology new relevance. Although viruses were first identified more than a century ago, we likely know less about their diversity than that of any other ...
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