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Home > LMB In The News > Spread of Delta SARS-CoV-2 variant driven by combination of immune escape and increased infectivity

Spread of Delta SARS-CoV-2 variant driven by combination of immune escape and increased infectivity

Published on 14 September, 2021

Guido Papa and Anna Albecka-Moreau in the James lab contribute to University of Cambridge study, finding that Delta variant spike protein induces higher cell-cell fusion and is less sensitive to inhibition by neutralising antibodies present in vaccinated individuals than the original SARS-CoV-2 strain. More…

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