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. 2021 Jul;93(7):4163-4165.
doi: 10.1002/jmv.26997. Epub 2021 Apr 13.

Symptomatic reinfection of SARS-CoV-2 with spike protein variant N440K associated with immune escape

Pallavali R Rani  1 , Mohamed Imran  2   3 , Juturu V Lakshmi  4 , Bani Jolly  2   3 , Abhinav Jain  2   3 , Avileli Surekha  4 , Vigneshwar Senthivel  2   3 , Pulala Chandrasekhar  5 , Mohit K Divakar  2   3 , Damam Srinivasulu  6 , Rahul C Bhoyar  2 , P R Vanaja  7 , Vinod Scaria  2   3 , Sridhar Sivasubbu  2   3
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Symptomatic reinfection of SARS-CoV-2 with spike protein variant N440K associated with immune escape

Pallavali R Rani et al. J Med Virol. 2021 Jul.
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(A) Genetic variants in the genome isolates of the two episodes (denoted as Episode 1 and Episode 2) of SARS‐CoV‐2 infections. The 22882T>G (Spike: N440K) variant is marked with an arrowhead. (B) Phylogenetic context of the virus isolates of the two episodes with other global samples having the N440K variant
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