Intra-Host SARS-CoV-2 Single-Nucleotide Variants Emerged During the Early Stage of COVID-19 Pandemic Forecast Population Fixing Mutations

January 2022 in “ Journal of Infection ”

Yi Zhang, Ning Jiang, Weiqiang Qi, Tao Li, Yumeng Zhang, Haocheng Zhang, Jing Wu, Zhaoqin Zhu, Jingwen Ai, Chao Qiu, Wenhong Zhang

Studysummary This article discusses intra-host single-nucleotide variants in SARS-CoV-2, highlighting their potential to inform on virus strain diversity, immune escape, and drug design, but it reports no new clinical results.

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