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. 2022 Jun:27:101549.
doi: 10.1016/j.genrep.2022.101549. Epub 2022 Feb 10.

Omicron: A highly transmissible SARS-CoV-2 variant

Farid Rahimi  1 , Amin Talebi Bezmin Abadi  2
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Omicron: A highly transmissible SARS-CoV-2 variant

Farid Rahimi et al. Gene Rep. 2022 Jun.
No abstract available

Keywords: B.1.1.529 strain; COVID-19 vaccines; Pandemic; SARS-CoV-2; South Africa.

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Phylogenetic relationships among SARS-CoV-2 Nextstrain clades (https://covariants.org/).
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Rising frequency of Omicron in comparison with other SARS-CoV-2 variants in the world (Date of access: 20 January 2022, available from nextstrain.org/sars-cov-2.)
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