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BA.2
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ba2 Ba2
Translingual
mul Etymology needs some work, and the layout is a mess.
Q110497087
Alternative forms
mul BA2 BA 2 BA-2 B-A-2 B A 2 B.A.2
Etymology
From being a mutant version of the mul BA.1 variant and the older designation mul B.1.1.529.2. Pango notation does not officially support 4 sublevels, leading to a need to renumber "B.1.1.529.2", thus shortened to a new base "BA" for "B.1.1.529" and ".2" becoming "BA.2"
Proper noun
mul proper noun
mul Q110497087 mul Types of coronaviruses mul virus neologism A subvariant of the en Omicron variant. A highly transmissible variant of the mul SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus genus, which causes mul COVID-19; which became dominant at the turn of the year 2021/2022 in en India.
Synonyms
mul B.1.1.529.2
Hypernyms
mul B.1.1.529 B.1.1 B.1 SARS-CoV-2 SARSr-CoV CoV Virus
Hyponyms
mul BA.2.12 BA.2.12.1 BA.2.10 BA.2.10.1 BA.2.75 XBB XBB.1 XBB.1.5
Coordinate terms
mul XE BA.1 BA.3 BA.4 BA.5
Derived terms
mul BA.2.12 BA.2.12.1 BA.2.10.1 BA.2.75
Related terms
mul BA.1 BA.3 BA.4 BA.5 B.1.1.529.1 B.1.1.529.2 B.1.1.529.3 B.1.1.529.4 B.1.1.529.5 B.1.1.529