Using high-throughput pseudovirus assay in conjunction with neutralizing antibodies, Wang et al. investigated 80 natural variants and 26 glycosylation-spike (S) mutants of SARS-CoV-2 in terms of infectivity and ...

The global pandemic of COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 (also known as 2019-nCoV and HCoV-19) has posed serious threats to public health and economic stability worldwide, thus calling for development of vaccines against ...

Secondary bacterial infections are commonly associated with prior or concomitant respiratory viral infections. Viral infections damage respiratory airways and simultaneously defects both innate and acquired immune response ...

Background and aims: The last two decades have experienced the outbreaks of three different coronaviruses in the different parts of the world namely; Severe acute respiratory syndrome cornonavirus-1 (SARS-CoV-1), Middle ...

Concomitant infection or co-infection with distinct SARS-CoV-2 genotypes have been reported as part of the epidemiological surveillance of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the context of the spread of more transmissible variants ...

The SARS-CoV-2 is the causative agent of the COVID-19 pandemic. The data available about COVID-19 during pregnancy have demonstrated placental infection; however, the mechanisms associated with intrauterine transmission ...

Co-infection has been reported in patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome, but there is limited knowledge on co-infection among patients with coronavirus disease 2019 ...