SARS-CoV-2 Omicron is an immune escape variant with an altered cell entry pathway.
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Nat Microbiol. 2022 Aug;7(8):1161-1179. doi: 10.1038/s41564-022-01143-7. Epub 2022 Jul 7.
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The emergence of hypermutated, increasingly transmissible variants of concern (VOCs) threaten this strategy. Omicron (B.1.1.529), the fifth VOC to be described, harbours multiple amino acid mutations in spike, half of which lie within the receptor-binding domain. ...
The emergence of hypermutated, increasingly transmissible variants of concern (VOCs) threaten this strategy. Omicron (B.1.1.529), the …