Microbiology

Protective activity of mRNA vaccines against ancestral and variant SARS-CoV-2 strains

1. Baoling Ying
2. Bradley Whitener
3. Laura A. VanBlargan
4. Ahmed O. Hassan
5. Swathi Shrihari
6. Chieh-Yu Liang
7. Courtney E. Karl
8. Samantha Mackin
9. Rita E. Chen
10. Natasha M. Kafai
11. Samuel H. Wilks
12. Derek J. Smith
13. Juan Manuel Carreño
14. Gagandeep Singh
15. Florian Krammer
16. Andrea Carfi
17. Sayda M. Elbashir
18. Darin K. Edwards
19. Larissa B. Thackray
20. Michael S. Diamond

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Effects of Spike Mutations in SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern on Human or Animal ACE2-Mediated Virus Entry and Neutralization

1. Yunjeong Kim
2. Natasha N. Gaudreault
3. David A. Meekins
4. Krishani D. Perera
5. Dashzeveg Bold
6. Jessie D. Trujillo
7. Igor Morozov
8. Chester D. McDowell
9. Kyeong-Ok Chang
10. Juergen A. Richt

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The B.1.427/1.429 (epsilon) SARS-CoV-2 variants are more virulent than ancestral B.1 (614G) in Syrian hamsters

1. Timothy Carroll
2. Douglas Fox
3. Neeltje van Doremalen
4. Erin Ball
5. Mary Kate Morris
6. Alicia Sotomayor-Gonzalez
7. Venice Servellita
8. Arjun Rustagi
9. Claude Kwe Yinda
10. Linda Fritts
11. Julia Rebecca Port
12. Zhong-Min Ma
13. Myndi G. Holbrook
14. Jonathan Schulz
15. Catherine A. Blish
16. Carl Hanson
17. Charles Y. Chiu
18. Vincent Munster
19. Sarah Stanley
20. Christopher J. Miller

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Mutation Y453F in the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 enhances interaction with the mink ACE2 receptor for host adaption

1. Wenlin Ren
2. Jun Lan
3. Xiaohui Ju
4. Mingli Gong
5. Quanxin Long
6. Zihui Zhu
7. Yanying Yu
8. Jianping Wu
9. Jin Zhong
10. Rong Zhang
11. Shilong Fan
12. Guocai Zhong
13. Ailong Huang
14. Xinquan Wang
15. Qiang Ding

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Presence and stability of SARS-CoV-2 on environmental currency and money cards in Utah reveals a lack of live virus

1. Colleen R. Newey
2. Abigail T. Olausson
3. Alyssa Applegate
4. Ann-Aubrey Reid
5. Richard A. Robison
6. Julianne H. Grose

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Intra-Host SARS-CoV-2 Evolution in the Gut of Mucosally-Infected Chlorocebus aethiops (African Green Monkeys)

1. Lori A. Rowe
2. Brandon J. Beddingfield
3. Kelly Goff
4. Stephanie Z. Killeen
5. Nicole R. Chirichella
6. Alexandra Melton
7. Chad J. Roy
8. Nicholas J. Maness

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Pathogen clonal expansion underlies multiorgan dissemination and organ-specific outcomes during murine systemic infection

1. Karthik Hullahalli
2. Matthew K Waldor

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  Evaluation Summary:

  Monitoring changes in pathogenic bacterial populations after bloodstream infection are poorly understood and in this work the authors develop new genetic analytic tools to dissect bacterial population dynamics at sites of infection. By harvesting bacteria from different sites and times of infection and performing deep sequencing to define the distribution of specific tagged-strains the authors provide a highly detailed snapshot of populations, with discriminatory power superior to prior studies. The work paves the way to future such studies in other organisms that cause persistent infection in humans.

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The SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant is poised to acquire complete resistance to wild-type spike vaccines

1. Yafei Liu
2. Noriko Arase
3. Jun-ichi Kishikawa
4. Mika Hirose
5. Songling Li
6. Asa Tada
7. Sumiko Matsuoka
8. Akemi Arakawa
9. Kanako Akamatsu
10. Chikako Ono
11. Hui Jin
12. Kazuki Kishida
13. Wataru Nakai
14. Masako Kohyama
15. Atsushi Nakagawa
16. Yoshiaki Yamagishi
17. Hironori Nakagami
18. Atsushi Kumanogoh
19. Yoshiharu Matsuura
20. Daron M. Standley
21. Takayuki Kato
22. Masato Okada
23. Manabu Fujimoto
24. Hisashi Arase

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Effects of face masks and ventilation on the risk of SARS-CoV-2 respiratory transmission in public toilets: a quantitative microbial risk assessment

1. Thammanitchpol Denpetkul
2. Monchai Pumkaew
3. Oranoot Sittipunsakda
4. Pornsawan Leaungwutiwong
5. Skorn Mongkolsuk
6. Kwanrawee Sirikanchana

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Single-cell growth inference of Corynebacterium glutamicum reveals asymptotically linear growth

1. Joris JB Messelink
2. Fabian Meyer
3. Marc Bramkamp
4. Chase P Broedersz

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  Evaluation Summary:

  The paper presents a method for inferring the growth dynamics of bacteria from noisy single-cell data and applies this to C. glutamicum. Applying the method to experiments three phases of growth during the cell cycle are identified, including a dominant period of linear growth, which is interpreted in terms of a growth mode that is limited by polar cell wall synthesis.

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