Omicron is already among the most infectious human viruses known to science.40 While even greater infectiousness (such as the sub-variant BA.2 has exhibited) is possible, to become dominant a new variant would likely need to also partially or fully evade prior immunity, including that provided...
Omicron is already among the most infectious human viruses known to science.40 While even greater infectiousness (such as the sub-variant BA.2 has exhibited) is possible, to become dominant a new variant would likely need to also partially or fully evade prior immunity, including that provided...
Neutralizing epitopes on pathogens are often not those which are most abundant or “easy” for antibody binding and important key neutralizing epitopes on some viruses such as HIV share structural similarities to self-antigens (Kelsoe and Haynes, 2017, West et al., 2014). As such, SHM at ...