SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern (VOC) have arisen independently at multiple locations 1 ,
2 and may reduce the efficacy of current vaccines that target the spike glycoprotein of SARS-…

The SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in southern Africa has been characterized by three distinct waves.
The first was associated with a mix of SARS-CoV-2 lineages, while the second and third …

Continued uncontrolled transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in many parts of the world is creating
conditions for substantial evolutionary changes to the virus 1 , 2 . Here we describe a newly …

The progression of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
pandemic in Africa has so far been heterogeneous, and the full impact is not yet well understood…

Felsenstein’s application of the bootstrap method to evolutionary trees is one of the most
cited scientific papers of all time. The bootstrap method, which is based on resampling and …

Three lineages (BA.1, BA.2 and BA.3) of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus
2 (SARS-CoV-2) Omicron variant of concern predominantly drove South Africa’s fourth …

Continued uncontrolled transmission of the severe acute respiratory syndrome-related
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in many parts of the world is creating the conditions for significant …

The first severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection in South
Africa was identified on 5 March 2020, and by 26 March the country was in full lockdown (…

We propose a novel, non-discriminatory classification of monkeypox virus diversity. Together
with the World Health Organization, we named three clades (I, IIa and IIb) in order of …

Characterizing SARS-CoV-2 evolution in specific geographies may help predict properties
of the variants that come from these regions. We mapped neutralization of a SARS-CoV-2 …