Rapid emergence of omicron sublineages expressing spike protein R346T

Lancet Reg Health Eur. 2023 Jan:24:100564. doi: 10.1016/j.lanepe.2022.100564. Epub 2022 Dec 10.

¹ Public Health Agency of Sweden, Solna, Sweden.
² Department of Medicine Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
³ Swedish Armed Forces, Umeå, Sweden.
⁴ Department of Laboratory Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
⁵ Center for Infectious Medicine, Department of Medicine Huddinge, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
⁶ Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences (BKV), Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.

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Keywords: COVID-19; Convergent evolution; National survey; Omicron; Point prevalence; Receptor binding domain; SARS-CoV-2; Spike protein.