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Comment
. 2022 Jun;12(6):e924.
doi: 10.1002/ctm2.924.

Renaming the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron sublineages as SARS-CoV-3 is contrary to nomenclature standards based on evolutionary and serological evidence

Zhongtian Qi  1 , Jianbo Wu  2 , Shibo Jiang  2
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Comment

Renaming the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron sublineages as SARS-CoV-3 is contrary to nomenclature standards based on evolutionary and serological evidence

Zhongtian Qi et al. Clin Transl Med. 2022 Jun.
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Phylogeny of coronaviruses related to SARS‐CoV‐2. The length of the blue bars represents the identity of the gene sequences in these viruses
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