Nikku Yadav1*, Suman Bala2, Charu Rai3, Lovnish Thakur4 and Nidhi Yadav5
1Assistant Professor (Clinical Research), Department of Community Medicine, Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences, Swami Rama Himalayan University, Uttarakhand, India 2Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Swami Rama Himalayan University, Uttarakhand, India 3Independent Researcher, M.Sc. Biotechnology from Apeejay Stya University, India 4Junior Research Fellow, NGIVD, BSC BioNest Bio-Incubator NCR Biotech Science Cluster, NCR Delhi, India 5Junior Research Fellow, Swami Rama Himalayan University, Uttarakhand, India
*Corresponding Author: Nikku Yadav, Assistant Professor (Clinical Research), Department of Community Medicine, Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences, Swami Rama Himalayan University, Uttarakhand, India.
Received: April 27, 2022; Published: May 12, 2022
The purpose of this study was to summarize the knowledge available on mutations in SARS Cov-2 variants which can help in understanding the mutation pattern and to aid new drug development. Further, we have tried to gather the information available regarding the latent variants i.e. Omicron and IHU variants. So, for this, we have used databases like GISAID and Next strain to get the mutation information. And we have also done a sequence similarity search of emerging variants with the Wuhan reference strains. Also, we have discussed the latest WHO guidelines that need to be followed to tackle this 3rd wave of Covid-19.
Keywords:Mutations; SARS Cov-2 Variants; Doubling Time; Spike Structure
Citation: Nikku Yadav., et al. “COVID-19 Variants: Molecular Insight into Mutations". Acta Scientific Microbiology 5.6 (2022): 08-17.
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