Overview
SARS-CoV-2 is the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, a positive-sense single-stranded RNA betacoronavirus and the causative agent of COVID-19. It enters host cells primarily through binding of its spike glycoprotein to the ACE2 receptor, and its relatively large RNA genome accumulates mutations that generate variants of concern with altered transmissibility, immune escape, and clinical impact. Transmission occurs chiefly via respiratory droplets and aerosols, and infection ranges from asymptomatic carriage to severe pneumonia, hyperinflammation, and multi-organ involvement. Understanding the virus has centered on its molecular evolution and phylogeny, spike-protein biology, viral kinetics, host immune and cytokine responses, intracellular replication cycle, diagnostic detection of variants, and the development of vaccines and therapeutics. The peer-reviewed research collected here in the journal's virology and infectious-disease corpus reflects these themes, including molecular evolutionary characterization of SARS-CoV-2 isolates and comparison with other human and animal coronaviruses based on spike-gene sequences, viral kinetics under chloroquine-based or standard care, vaccine development insights and challenges, spike-protein effects on interferon and cytokine gene expression, molecular screening of the B.1.1.7 variant from rapid-antigen samples, convalescent-plasma neutralizing antibodies, and analytical modeling of the intracellular SARS-CoV-2 life cycle. Together they situate SARS-CoV-2 within contemporary research on emerging viral pathogens and their treatment.
Research published in this journal
12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.
Molecular Evolutionary Characteristics of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) Contracted by Tunisian Citizens : Comparison and Relationship to Other Human and Animal Coronaviruses Based on Spike Glycoprotein-Coding Gene Sequences Analysis
SARS-Cov-2 Viral Kinetics in Mild COVID-19 Patients Treated with Chloroquine Regimens or Standard of Care
Molecular Evolution of the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2
SARS-Corona Virus-2 Origin and Treatment, From Coffee to Coffee: A Double-Edged Sword
SARS-CoV-2 affected cells Pathogeny and Therapy
Use of the Remaining Sample from the Panbio COVID-19 Antigen Rapid Test Device for the Molecular Screening of the SARS-CoV-2 Variant of Concern B.1.1.7
Marginal SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Increases Interferon and Balances Cytokine Gene Expression
Exponential Parsimony to Generate Herd Immunity Against SARS- CoV2 Cybernetically Restricting Doxastic and Desiderative Logics
Pyrexia And Liver Injury After A Second SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination: Macrophage Activation Manifested In Liver
Presentation of Neutralizing Antibodies in Single- or Pooled-Convalescent Immune Plasma from Donors to Prevent the Current SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic
First Analytical Solution of Intracellular life Cycle of SARS-CoV-2
How this research is being cited
The 12 articles above have been cited 14 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.
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2024 · German Journal of Pharmaceuticals and Biomaterials
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R. Paulino-Ramírez et al. · 2023 · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
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2023 · Research Square (Research Square)
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2023 · Journal of Model Based Research
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2023 · Journal of Model Based Research
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2023 · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
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Satadal Das et al. · 2023 · International Journal of Applied Biology
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