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author Petersen, Eskild
Ntoumi, Francine
Hui, David S
Abubakar, Aisha
Kramer, Laura D.
Obiero, Christina
Tambyah, Paul Anantharajah
Blumberg, Lucille
Yapi, Richard
Al-Abri, Seif
Pinto, Tatiana de Castro Abreu
Yeboah-Manu, Dorothy
Haider, Najmul
Asogun, Danny
Velavan, Thirumalaisamy P.
Kapata, Nathan
Bates, Matthew
Ansumana, Rashid
Montaldo, Chiara
Mucheleng'anga, Luchenga
Tembo, John
Mwaba, Peter
Himwaze, Cordelia M.
Hamid, Muzamil Mahdi Abdel
Mfinanga, Sayoki
Mboera, Leonard
Raj, Tajudeen
Aklillu, Eleni
Veas, Francisco
Edwards, Sarah
Kaleebu, Pontiano
McHugh, Timothy D.
Chakaya, Jeremiah
Nyirenda, Thomas
Bockarie, Moses
Nyasulu, Peter S
Wejse, Christian
Muyembe-Tamfum, Jean-Jacques
Azhar, Esam I.
Maeurer, Markus
Nachega, Jean B.
Kock, Richard
Ippolito, Giuseppe
Zumla, Alimuddin
author_facet Petersen, Eskild
Ntoumi, Francine
Hui, David S
Abubakar, Aisha
Kramer, Laura D.
Obiero, Christina
Tambyah, Paul Anantharajah
Blumberg, Lucille
Yapi, Richard
Al-Abri, Seif
Pinto, Tatiana de Castro Abreu
Yeboah-Manu, Dorothy
Haider, Najmul
Asogun, Danny
Velavan, Thirumalaisamy P.
Kapata, Nathan
Bates, Matthew
Ansumana, Rashid
Montaldo, Chiara
Mucheleng'anga, Luchenga
Tembo, John
Mwaba, Peter
Himwaze, Cordelia M.
Hamid, Muzamil Mahdi Abdel
Mfinanga, Sayoki
Mboera, Leonard
Raj, Tajudeen
Aklillu, Eleni
Veas, Francisco
Edwards, Sarah
Kaleebu, Pontiano
McHugh, Timothy D.
Chakaya, Jeremiah
Nyirenda, Thomas
Bockarie, Moses
Nyasulu, Peter S
Wejse, Christian
Muyembe-Tamfum, Jean-Jacques
Azhar, Esam I.
Maeurer, Markus
Nachega, Jean B.
Kock, Richard
Ippolito, Giuseppe
Zumla, Alimuddin
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spelling pubmed-86346992021-12-01 Emergence of new SARS-CoV-2 Variant of Concern Omicron (B.1.1.529) - highlights Africa's research capabilities, but exposes major knowledge gaps, inequities of vaccine distribution, inadequacies in global COVID-19 response and control efforts Petersen, Eskild Ntoumi, Francine Hui, David S Abubakar, Aisha Kramer, Laura D. Obiero, Christina Tambyah, Paul Anantharajah Blumberg, Lucille Yapi, Richard Al-Abri, Seif Pinto, Tatiana de Castro Abreu Yeboah-Manu, Dorothy Haider, Najmul Asogun, Danny Velavan, Thirumalaisamy P. Kapata, Nathan Bates, Matthew Ansumana, Rashid Montaldo, Chiara Mucheleng'anga, Luchenga Tembo, John Mwaba, Peter Himwaze, Cordelia M. Hamid, Muzamil Mahdi Abdel Mfinanga, Sayoki Mboera, Leonard Raj, Tajudeen Aklillu, Eleni Veas, Francisco Edwards, Sarah Kaleebu, Pontiano McHugh, Timothy D. Chakaya, Jeremiah Nyirenda, Thomas Bockarie, Moses Nyasulu, Peter S Wejse, Christian Muyembe-Tamfum, Jean-Jacques Azhar, Esam I. Maeurer, Markus Nachega, Jean B. Kock, Richard Ippolito, Giuseppe Zumla, Alimuddin Int J Infect Dis Editorial Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of International Society for Infectious Diseases. 2022-01 2021-12-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8634699/ /pubmed/34863925 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2021.11.040 Text en © 2021 Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of International Society for Infectious Diseases. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
spellingShingle Editorial
Petersen, Eskild
Ntoumi, Francine
Hui, David S
Abubakar, Aisha
Kramer, Laura D.
Obiero, Christina
Tambyah, Paul Anantharajah
Blumberg, Lucille
Yapi, Richard
Al-Abri, Seif
Pinto, Tatiana de Castro Abreu
Yeboah-Manu, Dorothy
Haider, Najmul
Asogun, Danny
Velavan, Thirumalaisamy P.
Kapata, Nathan
Bates, Matthew
Ansumana, Rashid
Montaldo, Chiara
Mucheleng'anga, Luchenga
Tembo, John
Mwaba, Peter
Himwaze, Cordelia M.
Hamid, Muzamil Mahdi Abdel
Mfinanga, Sayoki
Mboera, Leonard
Raj, Tajudeen
Aklillu, Eleni
Veas, Francisco
Edwards, Sarah
Kaleebu, Pontiano
McHugh, Timothy D.
Chakaya, Jeremiah
Nyirenda, Thomas
Bockarie, Moses
Nyasulu, Peter S
Wejse, Christian
Muyembe-Tamfum, Jean-Jacques
Azhar, Esam I.
Maeurer, Markus
Nachega, Jean B.
Kock, Richard
Ippolito, Giuseppe
Zumla, Alimuddin
Emergence of new SARS-CoV-2 Variant of Concern Omicron (B.1.1.529) - highlights Africa's research capabilities, but exposes major knowledge gaps, inequities of vaccine distribution, inadequacies in global COVID-19 response and control efforts
title Emergence of new SARS-CoV-2 Variant of Concern Omicron (B.1.1.529) - highlights Africa's research capabilities, but exposes major knowledge gaps, inequities of vaccine distribution, inadequacies in global COVID-19 response and control efforts
title_full Emergence of new SARS-CoV-2 Variant of Concern Omicron (B.1.1.529) - highlights Africa's research capabilities, but exposes major knowledge gaps, inequities of vaccine distribution, inadequacies in global COVID-19 response and control efforts
title_fullStr Emergence of new SARS-CoV-2 Variant of Concern Omicron (B.1.1.529) - highlights Africa's research capabilities, but exposes major knowledge gaps, inequities of vaccine distribution, inadequacies in global COVID-19 response and control efforts
title_full_unstemmed Emergence of new SARS-CoV-2 Variant of Concern Omicron (B.1.1.529) - highlights Africa's research capabilities, but exposes major knowledge gaps, inequities of vaccine distribution, inadequacies in global COVID-19 response and control efforts
title_short Emergence of new SARS-CoV-2 Variant of Concern Omicron (B.1.1.529) - highlights Africa's research capabilities, but exposes major knowledge gaps, inequities of vaccine distribution, inadequacies in global COVID-19 response and control efforts
title_sort emergence of new sars-cov-2 variant of concern omicron (b.1.1.529) - highlights africa's research capabilities, but exposes major knowledge gaps, inequities of vaccine distribution, inadequacies in global covid-19 response and control efforts
topic Editorial
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8634699/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34863925
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2021.11.040
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