SARS-CoV-2 Brazil variants in Latin America: More serious research urgently needed on public health and vaccine protection

COVID-19 has not only created a pandemic but also affected both economically and socially in all countries. It has further created a socio-economic chaos throughout Latin America. Currently, some new SARS-CoV-2 variants are circulating in Latin America and one among the significant variant belongs t...

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Autores principales: Chakraborty, Chiranjib, Bhattacharya, Manojit, Sharma, Ashish Ranjan, Lee, Sang-Soo, Agoramoorthy, Govindasamy
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Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8178066/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34109031
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2021.102428
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author Chakraborty, Chiranjib
Bhattacharya, Manojit
Sharma, Ashish Ranjan
Lee, Sang-Soo
Agoramoorthy, Govindasamy
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description COVID-19 has not only created a pandemic but also affected both economically and socially in all countries. It has further created a socio-economic chaos throughout Latin America. Currently, some new SARS-CoV-2 variants are circulating in Latin America and one among the significant variant belongs to the P.1 lineage (B.1.1.28.1) that has 17 mutations. The essential modifications located in the spike glycoprotein RBD include E484K, K417T and N501Y. Along with the P.1 lineage, P.2 lineage (B.1.1.28.2) has also appeared recently. Details on all the variants are unknown, along with the Brazil variants at this time. Therefore, we call for intensive research to collect more data to understand the variants' virulence and the effects on vaccine efficacy.
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spelling pubmed-81780662021-06-05 SARS-CoV-2 Brazil variants in Latin America: More serious research urgently needed on public health and vaccine protection Chakraborty, Chiranjib Bhattacharya, Manojit Sharma, Ashish Ranjan Lee, Sang-Soo Agoramoorthy, Govindasamy Ann Med Surg (Lond) Commentary COVID-19 has not only created a pandemic but also affected both economically and socially in all countries. It has further created a socio-economic chaos throughout Latin America. Currently, some new SARS-CoV-2 variants are circulating in Latin America and one among the significant variant belongs to the P.1 lineage (B.1.1.28.1) that has 17 mutations. The essential modifications located in the spike glycoprotein RBD include E484K, K417T and N501Y. Along with the P.1 lineage, P.2 lineage (B.1.1.28.2) has also appeared recently. Details on all the variants are unknown, along with the Brazil variants at this time. Therefore, we call for intensive research to collect more data to understand the variants' virulence and the effects on vaccine efficacy. Elsevier 2021-06-05 /pmc/articles/PMC8178066/ /pubmed/34109031 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2021.102428 Text en © 2021 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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SARS-CoV-2 Brazil variants in Latin America: More serious research urgently needed on public health and vaccine protection
title SARS-CoV-2 Brazil variants in Latin America: More serious research urgently needed on public health and vaccine protection
title_full SARS-CoV-2 Brazil variants in Latin America: More serious research urgently needed on public health and vaccine protection
title_fullStr SARS-CoV-2 Brazil variants in Latin America: More serious research urgently needed on public health and vaccine protection
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title_short SARS-CoV-2 Brazil variants in Latin America: More serious research urgently needed on public health and vaccine protection
title_sort sars-cov-2 brazil variants in latin america: more serious research urgently needed on public health and vaccine protection
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8178066/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34109031
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2021.102428
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