Early transmissibility assessment of the N501Y mutant strains of SARS-CoV-2 in the United Kingdom, October to November 2020

Leung, K; Shum, MHH; Leung, GM; Lam, TTY; Wu, JT

Lam, TTY (corresponding author), Univ Hong Kong, LKS Fac Med, WHO Collaborating Ctr Infect Dis Epidemiol & Cont, Sch Publ Hlth, Hong Kong, Peoples R China.; Lam, TTY (corresponding author), Lab Data Discovery Hlth D24H, Hong Kong Sci Pk, Hong Kong, Peoples R China.; Lam, TTY (corresponding author), Univ Hong Kong, Sch Publ Hlth, State Key Lab Emerging Infect Dis, Hong Kong, Peoples R China.; Lam, TTY (corresponding author), Shantou Univ, Joint Inst Virol Shantou Univ & Univ Hong Kong, Guangdong

EUROSURVEILLANCE, 2021; 26 (1): 15

Abstract

Two new SARS-CoV-2 lineages with the N501Y mutation in the receptor-binding domain of the spike protein spread rapidly in the United Kingdom. We estim......

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