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SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.2.12.1, BA.4, and BA.5 subvariants evolved to extend antibody evasion
2022-05-31
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<title>Abstract</title> <p>The Omicron subvariant BA.2 accounts for a large majority of the SARS-CoV-2 infection worldwide today. However, its recent descendants BA.2.12.1 and BA.4/5 have surged dramatically to become dominant in the United States and South Africa, respectively. That these novel Omicron subvariants carry additional mutations in their spike proteins raises concerns that they may further evade neut...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 9f631070-857d-5fa4-bad1-66d90a9d599e
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1696532/v1
