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Review
. 2022 Nov 27;58(12):1733.
doi: 10.3390/medicina58121733.

Panorama of Breakthrough Infection Caused by SARS-CoV-2: A Review

Qinglu Fan  1 , Zhihao Nie  1 , Songping Xie  1
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Review

Panorama of Breakthrough Infection Caused by SARS-CoV-2: A Review

Qinglu Fan et al. Medicina (Kaunas). .

Abstract

Since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in 2019, many countries have successively developed a variety of vaccines against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). However, with the continuous spread of SARS-CoV-2, it has evolved several variants; as a result, prevention and control of the pandemic of SARS-CoV-2 has become more important. Among these variants, the Omicron variant has higher transmissibility and immune escape ability and is the main variant causing a large number of COVID-19 breakthrough infection, thus, presenting new challenges to pandemic prevention and control. Hence, we review the biological characteristics of the Omicron variant and discuss the current status and possible mechanism of breakthrough infection caused by the Omicron variant in order to provide insights into the prevention and control of the pandemic of SARS-CoV-2.

Keywords: COVID-19; Omicron; SARS-CoV-2; breakthrough infection; variants.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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