| Chapter title |
The COVID-19 Pandemic: SARS-CoV-2 Structure, Infection, Transmission, Symptomology, and Variants of Concern.
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|---|---|
| Chapter number | 1 |
| Book title |
Application of Omic Techniques to Identify New Biomarkers and Drug Targets for COVID-19
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| Published in |
Advances in experimental medicine and biology, June 2023
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| DOI | 10.1007/978-3-031-28012-2_1 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Book ISBNs |
978-3-03-128011-5, 978-3-03-128012-2
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| Authors |
Guest, Paul C, Kesharwani, Prashant, Butler, Alexandra E, Sahebkar, Amirhossein, Guest, Paul C., Butler, Alexandra E. |
| Abstract |
Since it was first detected in December 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic has spread across the world and affected virtually every country and territory. The pathogen driving this pandemic is SARS-CoV-2, a positive-sense single-stranded RNA virus which is primarily transmissible though the air and can cause mild to severe respiratory infections in humans. Within the first year of the pandemic, the situation worsened with the emergence of several SARS-CoV-2 variants. Some of these were observed to be more virulent with varying capacities to escape the existing vaccines and were, therefore, denoted as variants of concern. This chapter provides a general overview of the course of the COVID-19 pandemic up to April 2022 with a focus on the structure, infection, transmission, and symptomology of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The main objectives were to investigate the effects of the variants of concern on the trajectory of the virus and to highlight a potential pathway for coping with the current and future pandemics. |
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