What is it about?
Since emerging from Wuhan, China, in December of 2019, the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has been causing devastating severe respiratory infections in humans worldwide. With the disease spreading faster than the medical community could contain it, death tolls increased at an alarming rate worldwide, causing the World Health Organization to officially sanction the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak as a pandemic, leading to a state of worldwide lockdown for the majority of the year 2020. This literature review intends to identify and report SARS-CoV-2 variants that are currently evolving and their disease implications.
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Why is it important?
There have been reports of new strains of the virus emerging in various parts of the world, with some strains displaying even greater infectivity and transmissibility.
Perspectives
Areas of the emerging variant of concern arise from countries like the United Kingdom, South Africa, Brazil, and India. These mutations carry a lineage from N501Y, D614G, N439K, Y453F, and others, which are globally dominated by clades 20A, 20B, and 20C.
Dr Adekunle Sanyaolu
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This page is a summary of: The emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern, Therapeutic Advances in Infectious Disease, January 2021, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/20499361211024372.
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