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. 2022 Apr;94(4):1284-1288.
doi: 10.1002/jmv.27532. Epub 2022 Jan 14.

SARS-CoV-2 omicron variant: Could it be another threat?

Balamurugan Shanmugaraj  1 , Ashwini Malla  1 , Narach Khorattanakulchai  2   3 , Waranyoo Phoolcharoen  2   3
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SARS-CoV-2 omicron variant: Could it be another threat?

Balamurugan Shanmugaraj et al. J Med Virol. 2022 Apr.
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Waranyoo Phoolcharoen from Chulalongkorn University is a co‐founder/shareholder of Baiya Phytopharm Co., Ltd. Thailand. The other authors declare that there are no conflict of interests.

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The genomic structure of SARS‐CoV‐2 showing the structural proteins such as spike, envelope, membrane, nucleocapsid (A); Schematic illustration showing the arrangement of domains present in the SARS‐CoV‐2 spike glycoprotein; The identified mutations and locations of amino acid substitutions in spike protein of VOC Omicron are also presented. More than 30 mutations have been identified including three small deletions and one small insertion on the spike region, of which 15 mutations were reported in RBD. Different domains are represented in different colors (B)
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