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Rise of the BQ.1.1.37 SARS-CoV-2 Sublineage, Italy
- Source :
- Diagnostics, Vol 13, Iss 5, p 1000 (2023)
- Publication Year :
- 2023
- Publisher :
- MDPI AG, 2023.
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Abstract
- BQ.1.1 has dominated the Europe and Americas COVID-19 wave across the 2022–2023 winter, and further viral evolution is expected to escape the consolidating immune responses. We report here the emergence of the BQ.1.1.37 variant in Italy, peaking in January 2022 before suffering competition by XBB.1.*. We attempted to correlate the potential fitness of BQ.1.1.37 with a unique two-amino acid insertion within the Spike protein.
- Subjects :
- SARS-CoV-2
COVID-19
BQ.1.1.37
Cerberus
Italy
Medicine (General)
R5-920
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20754418
- Volume :
- 13
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Diagnostics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.2f97298414374857841d84db637650ca
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13051000