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Emergence of N antigen SARS-CoV-2 genetic variants escaping detection of antigenic tests

2021-03-26 infectious diseases Title + abstract only
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SARS-CoV-2 genetic variants are emerging as a major threat to vaccination efforts worldwide as they may increase virus transmission rate and/or confer the ability to escape vaccine induced immunity with knock on effects on the level of herd immunity and vaccine efficacy respectively. These variants concern the Spike protein, which is encoded by the S gene, involved in virus entry into host cells and the major target of vaccine development. We report here that genetic variants of the N gene can i...

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