P. B. van den Doel

This study compares the antigenic differences between SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.1 and BA.2 variants using antigenic cartography and hamster sera, finding they are distinct antigenic outliers.

This study compares the replication efficiency of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron with earlier variants in human airway and alveolar epithelial cells, finding higher replication in airways and reduced replication in alveolar type 2 cells.

The paper assesses the replicative fitness of SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7 variant in human organoid models and finds higher infectious virus production and fitness compared to an ancestral strain.

The paper shows that using human airway cells prevents SARS-CoV-2 from mutating its multibasic cleavage site during propagation.

This study develops sensitive ELISAs to detect EEHV infections in elephants, finding high prevalence in (sub)adults and low antibody levels in juvenile EEHV-HD cases.

This study shows that the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein's multibasic cleavage site enhances entry into human airway cells via serine proteases, and that blocking these proteases inhibits infection.

This study shows rabbits can be infected with SARS-CoV-2 and shed infectious virus from the nose and throat.