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The N501Y spike substitution enhances SARS-CoV-2 transmission
2021-03-09
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<h4>Summary</h4> 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 in the spik...
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- Literature Corpus work
- cf492e52-f175-5ded-b64c-dbc73e4d7483
- DOI
- 10.1101/2021.03.08.434499