School of Medical Sciences: Recent submissions
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COVID-19 - lessons for zoonotic disease
Published 2022Disease emergence is driven by human-animal contact in a global viral ecosystem.Article -
Replacement of the Gamma by the Delta variant in Brazil: Impact of lineage displacement on the ongoing pandemic
Published 2022The 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 ...Article -
Virome characterization of game animals in China reveals a spectrum of emerging pathogens
Published 2022Game 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 ...Article -
Diversity and evolution of the animal virome
Published 2022The 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 ...Article -
Relating in vitro neutralisation level and protection in the CVnCoV (CUREVAC) trial.
Published 2022The vaccine candidate CVnCoV (CUREVAC) showed surprisingly low efficacy in a recent phase 3 trial compared with other mRNA vaccines. Here we show that the low efficacy follows from the dose used and the presence of SARS-CoV-2 ...Article