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Covid virus mutation may have made it more contagious: Study – Daijiworld.com
New York, Nov 1 (IANS): The virus that causes Covid-19 is accumulating genetic mutations, one of which may have made it more contagious, says a study involving more than 5,000 patients in the US.
That mutation, called D614G, is located in the spike protein that pries open our cells for viral entry, according to the paper published in the peer-reviewed journal mBIO.
The patients involved in this study of SARS-CoV-2 genome sequences were from Houston, Texas.
The paper shows “the virus is mutating…
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