Article
Evolution and neutralization escape of the SARS-CoV-2 BA.2.86 subvariant
2023-09-08
Abstract excerpt
Omicron BA.2.86 subvariant differs from Omicron BA.2 as well as recently circulating variants by over 30 mutations in the spike protein alone. Here we report on the first isolation of the live BA.2.86 subvariant from a diagnostic swab collected in South Africa which we tested for escape from neutralizing antibodies and viral replication properties in cell culture. BA.2.86 did not have significantly more escape tha...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 9516012e-a9a9-51cf-9b6d-eab603fd8498
- DOI
- 10.1101/2023.09.08.23295250
