Everything about SARS

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: SARSA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Rapid epidemic expansion of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in southern AfricaInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Deadliest enemyThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: SARS-CoV-2 Cell Entry Depends on ACE2 and TMPRSS2 and Is Blocked by a Clinically Proven Protease InhibitorCited 17,694 times
5. Go sideways: SARS-CoV-1A closely related topic
6. Go sideways: MERSA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• SARS-CoV-2 Cell Entry Depends on ACE2 and TMPRSS2 and Is Blocked by a Clinically Proven Protease Inhibitor

  Markus Hoffmann, Hannah Kleine-Weber, Simon Schroeder · 2020 · Cell · 17,694 citations

• Efficacy and Safety of the mRNA-1273 SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine

  Lindsey R. Baden, Hana M. El Sahly, Brandon Essink · 2021 · New England Journal of Medicine · 10,195 citations

• Clinical course and outcomes of critically ill patients with SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia in Wuhan, China: a single-centered, retrospective, observational study

  Xiaobo Yang, Yuan Yu, Jiqian Xu · 2020 · The Lancet Respiratory Medicine · 7,594 citations

• Aerosol and Surface Stability of SARS-CoV-2 as Compared with SARS-CoV-1

  Neeltje van Doremalen, Trenton Bushmaker, Dylan H. Morris · 2020 · New England Journal of Medicine · 7,299 citations

• Structure, Function, and Antigenicity of the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Glycoprotein

  Alexandra C. Walls, Young-Jun Park, M. Alejandra Tortorici · 2020 · Cell · 6,965 citations

• The species Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus: classifying 2019-nCoV and naming it SARS-CoV-2

  Coronaviridae Study Group of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses, Alexander E. Gorbalenya, Susan C. Baker · 2020 · Nature Microbiology · 5,850 citations

• Structure of the SARS-CoV-2 spike receptor-binding domain bound to the ACE2 receptor

  Jun Lan, Jiwan Ge, Jinfang Yu · 2020 · Nature · 5,730 citations

• Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 is a functional receptor for the SARS coronavirus

  Wenhui Li, Michael J. Moore, Natalya Vasilieva · 2003 · Nature · 5,235 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Rapid epidemic expansion of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in southern Africa

  Raquel Viana, Sikhulile Moyo, Daniel G. Amoako · 2022 · Nature · 1,759 citations

• SARS-CoV-2 is associated with changes in brain structure in UK Biobank

  Gwenaëlle Douaud, Soojin Lee, Fidel Alfaro-Almagro · 2022 · Nature · 1,386 citations

• Comparative analysis of the risks of hospitalisation and death associated with SARS-CoV-2 omicron (B.1.1.529) and delta (B.1.617.2) variants in England: a cohort study

  Tommy Nyberg, Neil M Ferguson, Sophie G Nash · 2022 · The Lancet · 1,251 citations

• The evolution of SARS-CoV-2

  Peter V. Markov, Mahan Ghafari, Martin Beer · 2023 · Nature Reviews Microbiology · 1,248 citations

• The T cell immune response against SARS-CoV-2

  Paul Moss · 2022 · Nature Immunology · 1,240 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Deadliest enemyMichael T. Osterholm, Mark Olshaker · 2017
• Understanding CoronavirusRaul Rabadan · 2020
• Imaging in SARSAnil T. Ahuja, A. T. Ahuja · 2004
• SARS- and other coronavirusesDave Cavanagh · 2008
• SARS in ChinaArthur Kleinman, James L Watson · 2005
• The depths of the oceanSir John Murray · 1912
• Wuhan Cover-UpRobert F. Kennedy Jr. · 2023
• De Wuhan Trilogie. Corona, ontsnapt uit het lab?Jan Bonte · 2024

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