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SARS-CoV-2 variants B.1.351 and P.1 escape from neutralizing antibodies.

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In this article, the authors show that SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 variants B.1.7 (UK), B.351 (South Africa), and P.1 (Brazil) harbor mutations in the viral spike (S) protein that may alter virus-host cell interactions and confer resistance to inhibitors and antibodies.
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This article is published in Cell.The article was published on 2021-04-29 and is currently open access. It has received 754 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Neutralizing antibody.

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Durability of mRNA-1273 vaccine-induced antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 variants.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the impact of SARS-CoV-2 variants B.1.7 (Alpha), B.351 (Beta), P.1, 1.429 (Epsilon), B1.526 (Iota), and B.2 (Delta) on binding, neutralizing, and ACE2-competing antibodies elicited by the vaccine mRNA-1273 over seven months.
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Attenuated fusogenicity and pathogenicity of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant

TL;DR: The emergence of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 is an urgent global health concern as mentioned in this paper , and statistical modelling suggests that OmicRON has spread more rapidly than the Delta variant in several countries including South Africa.
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A pneumonia outbreak associated with a new coronavirus of probable bat origin

TL;DR: Identification and characterization of a new coronavirus (2019-nCoV), which caused an epidemic of acute respiratory syndrome in humans in Wuhan, China, and it is shown that this virus belongs to the species of SARSr-CoV, indicates that the virus is related to a bat coronav virus.
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