Browsing Faculty of Natural Sciences by Subject "Coronavirus"
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Cellular Characterization of SARS Coronavirus Nucleocapsid
(Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, 2004)The Severe and Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (SARS CoV) is a newly-emerged virus that caused an outbreak of atypical pneumonia in the winter of 2002-2003. Polyclonal antibodies raised against the nucleocapsid (N) ... -
Covid-19 and cancer therapy: Interrelationships and management of cancer cases in the era of Covid-19
(Hindawi, 2021)'e COVID-19 global epidemic poses this generation’s biggest worldwide public health challenge probably since the 1918 influenza epidemic. Recent reports on two new variants have triggered a dramatic upsurge in research ... -
Current perspectives in the discovery of newer medications against the outbreak of Covid-19
(Frontiers Media, 2021)A rapid and increasing spread of COVID-19 pandemic disease has been perceived worldwide in 2020. The current COVID-19 disease outbreak is due to the spread of SARS-CoV-2. SARS-CoV-2 is a new strain of coronavirus that ... -
The evolving role of science in society
(José Frantz, 2020)The world is experiencing a traumatic change brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic. It is traumatic because it is sudden and affects everyone around the globe at once. Nothing like this has ever happened so rapidly before, ... -
Genome sequencing of a severe acute respiratory syndrome Coronavirus 2 isolate obtained from a South African patient with Coronavirus disease 2019
(American Society for Microbiology, 2020)As a contribution to the global efforts to track and trace the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, here we present the sequence, phylogenetic analysis, and modeling of nonsynonymous mutations for a severe acute respiratory ... -
Over-expression of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 3b protein induces both apoptosis and necrosis in Vero E6 cells
(Elsevier, 2006)The genome of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus encodes for eight accessory viral proteins with no known homologues in other coronaviruses. One of these is the 3b protein, which is encoded by the second ... -
South Africa: Challenges and successes of the COVID-19 lockdown
(Elsevier, 2020)At the beginning of March 2020, South Africa (59 million inhabitants) was hit by the pandemic of COVID-19 and soon became the most affected country in Africa by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. From one single case on March 5th, the ... -
Understanding the epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis and management of SARS-CoV-2
(SAGE, 2020)The emergence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in December 2019 has resulted in over 20 million cases and 741,808 deaths globally, affecting more than 200 countries. COVID-19 was declared a pandemic on 11 March 2020 ...