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Increased pathogenicity and transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron XBB.1.9 sublineage, including HK.3 and EG.5.1
2024-06-11
Abstract excerpt
With the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron XBB.1.9 sublineage circulating worldwide, two XBB.1.9 variants, EG.5.1 and HK.3 spread rapidly and became dominant from middle 2023. However, the spike features, pathogenicity, and transmissibility of HK.3 are largely unknown. Here, we performed multiscale investigations to reveal the virological features of XBB.1.9 subvariants, especially the newly emerging HK.3. HK.3 revealed high rep...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 3e605989-3bae-5dc0-b726-40ba1d1e26d6
- DOI
- 10.1101/2024.06.10.598324
