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Kraken variant
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English
Alternative forms
en kraken variant Kraken Variant
Proper noun
- Kraken variant
en neologism The highly en transmissible XBB.1.5 strain of the SARS-CoV-2 en virus that causes COVID-19. A subvariant of the en Omicron variant B.1.1.529. Kraken became the predominant strain in the United States at the end of 2022.
en 2023 Marko E. Popovic XBB.1.5 Kraken cracked: Gibbs energies of binding and biosynthesis of the XBB.1.5 variant of SARS-CoV-2 Microbiological Research 270 10.1016/j.micres.2023.127337 Genetic sequences of isolates of the XBB.1.5 “Kraken” variant of SARS-CoV-2 were taken from GISAID, the global data science initiative
en 2023 Alessandro Rovetta An integrated infoveillance approach using google trends and Talkwalker: Listening to web concerns about COVID-19 vaccines in Italy Healthcare Analytics 4 10.1016/j.health.2023.100272 In particular, a marked interest in the relationship between "sudden deaths - vaccines" and a significant interest in the relationship between vaccines and the COVID-19 Kraken variant, cancer, and myocarditis.
en 2025-04-01 Srishti Awasthi; Maryam Zolfaghari Dehkharghani; Miguel Fudolig Emergence to dominance: Estimating time to dominance of SARS-CoV-2 variants using nonlinear statistical models PLoS One 10.1371/journal.pone.0311459 Two of the most recent variants that dominated the infected population in the United States (US) are XBB.1.5, also known as the Kraken variant, and JN.1.
Synonyms
en mul:XBB.1.5 Kraken strain Kraken lineage Kraken subvariant Kraken sublineage Kraken
Hypernyms
en mul:XBB.1 mul:XBB mul:BA.2 Omicron variant mul:B.1.1 mul:B.1 mul:SARS-CoV-2 mul:SARSr-CoV coronavirus virus
Derived terms
en abbreviations, short forms Kraken kraken
Related terms
en Omicron variant Delta variant Alpha variant Wuhan variant
en Types of coronaviruses COVID-19