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Immune-evading variants can emerge in SARS-CoV-2, researchers warn
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Immune-evading variants can emerge in SARS-CoV-2, researchers warn

By Sally Robertson, B.Sc.,Nov 9 2020 An international team of researchers has shown that a mutation within severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) – the agent responsible for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) – enables the pathogen to evade antibody-mediated immunity while maintaining replication fitness and increasing viral loads. The researchers showed that a variant in the viral spike...