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Striking Antibody Evasion Manifested by the Omicron Variant of SARS-CoV-2
2021-12-15
Abstract excerpt
The Omicron (B.1.1.529) variant of SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) was only recently detected in southern Africa, but its subsequent spread has been extensive, both regionally and globally 1 . It is expected to become dominant in the coming weeks 2 , probably due to enhanced transmissibility. A striking feature of this variant is the large number of spike mutations 3 that pose a thr...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 87312cf8-dd73-546f-be14-bee128acedd7
- DOI
- 10.1101/2021.12.14.472719