The emergence of successive SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern during 2020-22 created a need to understand the drivers of such growth

The emergence of successive SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern during 2020-22 created a need to understand the drivers of such growth; this study uses a Bayesian model to reveal how a set of key covariates (the infecting variant, symptom status, age and number of prior exposures) affect viral kinetics at both individual and population levels Credit: […]

Jan 30, 2024 - 18:00

The emergence of successive SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern during 2020-22 created a need to understand the drivers of such growth; this study uses a Bayesian model to reveal how a set of key covariates (the infecting variant, symptom status, age and number of prior exposures) affect viral kinetics at both individual and population levels

Credit: Russell TW et al., 2024, PLOS Biology, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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Article Title: Combined analyses of within-host SARS-CoV-2 viral kinetics and information on past exposures to the virus in a human cohort identifies intrinsic differences of Omicron and Delta variants

Author Countries: United Kingdom

Funding: see manuscript

Journal

PLoS Biology

DOI

10.1371/journal.pbio.3002463

Method of Research

Computational simulation/modeling

Subject of Research

Not applicable

Article Title

Combined analyses of within-host SARS-CoV-2 viral kinetics and information on past exposures to the virus in a human cohort identifies intrinsic differences of Omicron and Delta variants