Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine elicits durable specific memory T-cell response
While the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has spread rapidly and extensively throughout the world, its impact has been uneven. At present, it...
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Prediction of severe infection based on SARS-CoV-2 genomic analysis
A group of scientists has claimed that coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) severity depends on the method of exposure, the pathogenicity of the causal agent,...
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Exploring loss of Y chromosome in white blood cells as a risk-factor of life-threatening COVID-19 in men
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), affects people by different severities. However, the worst-hit are those with...
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Non-severe COVID-19 may elicit more durable memory B cell response than severe COVID-19
Although highly effective vaccines have minimized the transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and significantly reduced morbidity and mortality in countries with...
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A possible protective genetic polymorphism in COVID-19
An interesting new study published on the preprint server medRxiv* discusses the role of a mucin gene enhancer on the clinical phenotype of the coronavirus...
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Metabolic and immune markers as tools for risk stratification and monitoring in COVID-19
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) commonly results in mild coronavirus disease (COVID-19) characterized by fever, cough, and...
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Adaptive immunity in patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 Δ382 Variant
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was first reported in Wuhan, China in 2019 and is the causal agent of the ongoing coronavirus...
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Comparison of peptides from human cardiac proteins and SARS-CoV-2 proteins
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been caused by the rapid outbreak of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Cardiac injury is...
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New automated approach to detecting SARS-CoV-2 variants with increased growth rates
Researchers in the United States have developed a new automated approach to detecting variants of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) – the agent...
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Researchers identify novel SARS-CoV-2 Delta-Omicron recombinant strain in Europe
A recent article posted to the Research Square* preprint server, whilst under consideration at a Nature Portfolio journal, presented the rapid profiling of a severe acute...
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Early-stage interaction of monocytes with SARS-CoV-2-infected epithelial cell decides COVID-19 severity
A team of scientists from the USA and France has recently unveiled the mechanism of immune dysregulation in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients by analyzing...
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SARS-CoV-2 spike S375F mutation triggered the explosive spread of Omicron
In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* preprint server, researchers investigated the mutation in the viral spike (S) protein of the severe acute respiratory...