COVID‐19: Omicron – the latest, the least virulent, but probably not the last variant of concern of SARS‐CoV‐2

Summary The Omicron variant rapidly became the dominant SARS‐CoV‐2 strain in South Africa and elsewhere. This review explores whether this rise was due to an increased transmission of the variant or its escape from population immunity by an extensively mutated spike protein. The mutations affected t...

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Main Author: Harald Brüssow
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2022-07-01
Series:Microbial Biotechnology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.14064