Rise of the BQ.1.1.37 SARS-CoV-2 Sublineage, Italy

BQ.1.1 has dominated the Europe and Americas COVID-19 wave across the 2022–2023 winter, and further viral evolution is expected to escape the consolidating immune responses. We report here the emergence of the BQ.1.1.37 variant in Italy, peaking in January 2022 before suffering competition by XBB.1....

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Autores principales: Focosi, Daniele, Spezia, Pietro Giorgio, Capria, Anna-Lisa, Gueli, Federico, McConnell, Scott, Novazzi, Federica, Pistello, Mauro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10001149/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36900144
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13051000
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author Focosi, Daniele
Spezia, Pietro Giorgio
Capria, Anna-Lisa
Gueli, Federico
McConnell, Scott
Novazzi, Federica
Pistello, Mauro
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Capria, Anna-Lisa
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description BQ.1.1 has dominated the Europe and Americas COVID-19 wave across the 2022–2023 winter, and further viral evolution is expected to escape the consolidating immune responses. We report here the emergence of the BQ.1.1.37 variant in Italy, peaking in January 2022 before suffering competition by XBB.1.*. We attempted to correlate the potential fitness of BQ.1.1.37 with a unique two-amino acid insertion within the Spike protein.
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spelling pubmed-100011492023-03-11 Rise of the BQ.1.1.37 SARS-CoV-2 Sublineage, Italy Focosi, Daniele Spezia, Pietro Giorgio Capria, Anna-Lisa Gueli, Federico McConnell, Scott Novazzi, Federica Pistello, Mauro Diagnostics (Basel) Communication BQ.1.1 has dominated the Europe and Americas COVID-19 wave across the 2022–2023 winter, and further viral evolution is expected to escape the consolidating immune responses. We report here the emergence of the BQ.1.1.37 variant in Italy, peaking in January 2022 before suffering competition by XBB.1.*. We attempted to correlate the potential fitness of BQ.1.1.37 with a unique two-amino acid insertion within the Spike protein. MDPI 2023-03-06 /pmc/articles/PMC10001149/ /pubmed/36900144 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13051000 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Pistello, Mauro
Rise of the BQ.1.1.37 SARS-CoV-2 Sublineage, Italy
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36900144
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13051000
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