Article
SARS-CoV-2 one year on: evidence for ongoing viral adaptation.
The Journal of general virology - 1 Apr 2021
Peacock Thomas P, Penrice-Randal Rebekah, Hiscox Julian A, Barclay Wendy S
Abstract excerpt
SARS-CoV-2 is thought to have originated in the human population from a zoonotic spillover event. Infection in humans results in a variety of outcomes ranging from asymptomatic cases to the disease COVID-19, which can have significant morbidity and mortality, with over two million confirmed deaths worldwide as of January 2021. Over a year into the pandemic, sequencing analysis has shown that variants of...
Topics
- Adaptation, Physiological
- Animals
- Antigens, Viral
- COVID-19
- Humans
- Immune Evasion
- Mutation
- RNA, Viral
- SARS-CoV-2
- Spike Glycoprotein, Coronavirus
- Viral Proteins
- Virus Internalization