SARS-CoV-2 B.1.617.2 Delta variant replication and immune evasion

Petra Mlčochová; Steven A. Kemp; Mahesh Shanker Dhar; Guido Papa; Bo Meng; Isabella A.T.M. Ferreira; Rawlings Datir; Dami A. Collier; Anna Albecka; Sujeet Kumar Singh; Rajesh Pandey; Jonathan C. Brown; Jie Zhou; Niluka Goonawardane; Swapnil Mishra; Charles Whittaker; Thomas A. Mellan; Robin Marwal; Meena Datta; Shantanu Sengupta; Kalaiarasan Ponnusamy; Venkatraman Radhakrishnan; Adam Abdullahi; Oscar Charles; Partha Chattopadhyay; Priti Devi; Daniela Caputo; Thomas P. Peacock; Chand Wattal; Neeraj Goel; Ambrish Satwik; Raju Vaishya; Meenakshi Agarwal; Himanshu Chauhan; Tanzin Dikid; Hema Gogia; Hemlata Lall; Kaptan Verma; Mahesh Shanker Dhar; Manoj Kumar Singh; Namita Soni; Namonarayan Meena; Preeti Madan; Priyanka Singh; Ramesh Sharma; Rajeev Sharma; Sandhya Kabra; Sattender Kumar; Swati Kumari; Uma Sharma; Urmila Chaudhary; Sridhar Sivasubbu; Vinod Scaria; Jaspal Kaur Oberoi; Reena Raveendran; Sandip K. Datta; Saumitra Das; Arindam Maitra; Sreedhar Chinnaswamy; Nidhan K. Biswas; Ajay Parida; Sunil K. Raghav; Punit Prasad; Apurva Sarin; Satyajit Mayor; Uma Ramakrishnan; Dasaradhi Palakodeti; Aswin Sai Narain Seshasayee; Kumarasamy Thangaraj; Murali Dharan Bashyam; Ashwin Dalal; Manoj Kumar Bhat; Yogesh S. Shouche; Ajay D. Pillai; Priya Abraham; Varsha Potdar; Sarah Cherian; Anita Desai; Chitra Pattabiraman; M. V. Manjunatha; Reeta S. Mani; Gautam Arunachal Udupi; Vinay Kumar Nandicoori; Karthik Bharadwaj Tallapaka; Divya Tej Sowpati; Ryoko Kawabata; Nanami Morizako; Kenji Sadamasu; Hiroyuki Asakura; Mami Nagashima; Kazuhisa Yoshimura; Jumpei Ito; Izumi Kimura; Keiya Uriu; Yusuke Kosugi; Mai Suganami; Akiko Oide; Miyabishara Yokoyama; Mika Chiba; Akatsuki Saito

doi:10.1038/s41586-021-03944-y

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Evasion (ethics)VirologyReplication (statistics)Immune systemImmune escapeSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)BiologyCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)2019-20 coronavirus outbreakViral replicationGeneticsVirusMedicineInfectious disease (medical specialty)

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Year: 2021
Type: article
Volume: 599
Issue: 7883
Pages: 114-119
Citations: 1374
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                                    Petra Mlčochová, 
                                
                                    Steven A. Kemp, 
                                
                                    Mahesh Shanker Dhar
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (2021). 
                            SARS-CoV-2 B.1.617.2 Delta variant replication and immune evasion. 
                            Nature
                            , 599
                            (7883)
                            , 114-119.
                            https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03944-y
                        

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DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03944-y