Journal of Vaccines & Vaccination

Department of Genetics, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Complutense University, 28040 Madrid, Spain

Biography

Eduardo Costas is currently working as a Professor in the Department of Genetics. Eduardo's research interests includes Genetics, Veteriary medicine. He is serving as an editorial member and reviewer of several international reputed journals. Eduardo has successfully completed her Administrative responsibilities. Eduardo has authored of many research articles/books related to Genetics, Immunology.

 

Publications

• Review Article   
  Sword of Damocles or Choosing Well Population Genetics Sheds Light into the Future of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Sars-Cov-2 New Mutant Strains
  Author(s): Javier Garcia Garcia de Alcaniz, Victoria Lopez-Rodas and Eduardo Costas*
  
  An immense scientific effort has been made worldwide due to Covid-19’s pandemic magnitude. It has made possible to identify almost 300,000 SARS-CoV-2 different genetic variants, connecting them with clinical and epidemiological findings. Among this immense data collection, that constitutes the biggest evolutionary experiment in history, is buried the answer to what will happen in the future. Will new strains, more contagious than the current ones or resistant to the vaccines, arise by mutation? Although theoretic population genetics is, by far, the most powerful tool we have to do an accurate prediction, it has been barely used for the study of SARS-CoV-2 due to its conceptual difficulty. Having in mind that the size of the SARS-CoV-2 population is astronomical we can apply a discrete treatment, based on the branching process method, Fokker-Plank equations .. View more»
  

  DOI: 10.35248/2157-7560.21.12.445

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