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South African and Brazilian SARS-CoV-2 variants can evade antibodies from therapies, vaccines, and infection – News-Medical.Net

Researchers at the Infection Biology Unit, German Primate Center, and the Georg-August-University Göttingen in Germany have found that the B.1.351 and P.1 SARS-CoV-2…

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Coronavirus disease 2019 (2019) is caused by the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pathogen. Over a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, new variants of concern have emerged and posed serious health threats globally. These new variants have exhibited heightened transmissibility and immunity evasion potential.
In a new study, published in the journal Cell, researchers in Germany found that the variants B.1.1.7 (or United Kingdom) variant, the B.1.351 (or South African)…

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