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The N501Y spike substitution enhances SARS-CoV-2 transmission

2021-03-11

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Beginning in the summer of 2020, a variant of SARS-CoV-2, the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic, emerged in the United Kingdom (UK). This B.1.1.7 variant increased rapidly in prevalence among sequenced strains, attributed to an increase in infection and/or transmission efficiency. The UK variant has 19 nonsynonymous mutations across its viral genome including 8 substitutions or deletions i...

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7663bc63-e715-5798-9608-a1fe4711dc08
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10.21203/rs.3.rs-311070/v1
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