Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 imposes a new challenge for the global public health

Since its first discovery, the Omicron variant of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has evoked another wave of infection and caused global concern and panic. Moreover, although the data are still limited, Omicron showed highly concerning characteristics, including higher t...

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Autores principales: Xu, Zepeng, Liu, Kefang, Gao, George F.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Chinese Medical Association Publishing House. Published by Elsevier BV. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8767758/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35072038
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bsheal.2022.01.002
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description Since its first discovery, the Omicron variant of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has evoked another wave of infection and caused global concern and panic. Moreover, although the data are still limited, Omicron showed highly concerning characteristics, including higher transmissibility, extensive immune escape and potentially altered host range. We interpreted these characteristics based on currently available data and outlined some urgent questions, calling for a more comprehensive investigation.
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spelling pubmed-87677582022-01-19 Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 imposes a new challenge for the global public health Xu, Zepeng Liu, Kefang Gao, George F. Biosaf Health Article Since its first discovery, the Omicron variant of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has evoked another wave of infection and caused global concern and panic. Moreover, although the data are still limited, Omicron showed highly concerning characteristics, including higher transmissibility, extensive immune escape and potentially altered host range. We interpreted these characteristics based on currently available data and outlined some urgent questions, calling for a more comprehensive investigation. Chinese Medical Association Publishing House. Published by Elsevier BV. 2022-06 2022-01-19 /pmc/articles/PMC8767758/ /pubmed/35072038 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bsheal.2022.01.002 Text en © 2022 Chinese Medical Association Publishing House. Published by Elsevier BV. 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.
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Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 imposes a new challenge for the global public health
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8767758/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35072038
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bsheal.2022.01.002
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