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Iota variant
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iota variant Iota Variant
English
Alternative forms
en iota variant Iota Variant ι variant ι-variant Ι variant Ι-variant
Noun
en noun Iota variant
The B.1.526 strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.
en 2021 Rivero R.; Garay E.; Botero Y.; et al. Human-to-dog Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Lota Variant: Should COVID-19 Patients Avoid Close Contact with their Pets During Illness? Research Square 10.21203/rs.3.rs-821033/v1 https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-821033/v1 The present paper reports the first symptomatic human-to-dog transmission event of the SARS-CoV-2 Iota variant in Latin America. https://web.archive.org/web/20260426180807/https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-821033/v1 26 April 2026
en 2022 Brenda Martínez-González; Lucía Vázquez-Sirvent; María E. Soria; Pablo Mínguez; Llanos Salar-Vidal; Carlos García-Crespo; Isabel Gallego; et al. Vaccine breakthrough infections with SARS-CoV-2 Alpha mirror mutations in Delta Plus, Iota, and Omicron The Journal of Clinical Investigation 132 9 10.1172/JCI157700 Interestingly, in addition to these “divergence” mutations, we also found amino acid substitutions representative of the Delta Plus, Iota, and Omicron variants in the mutant spectra of the 5 patients with vaccine breakthrough. In particular, substitution L5F in patient Pt449, present in the Iota variant; A222V in patients Pt450 and Pt453, present in the Delta Plus variant; N679K in patient Pt451, present in the Omicron variant; and P681R in patient Pt452, present in the Delta Plus variant, were found
en 2024 Ryan Forster; Anthony Griffen; Johanna Daily; Libusha Kelly Community level variability in Bronx COVID-19 hospitalizations associated with differing viral variant adaptive strategies during the second year of the pandemic medRxiv 10.1101/2024.03.05.24303791 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.05.24303791v1 Genomic analysis revealed similar viral fitness for Alpha and Iota variants in the Bronx compared to nationwide data. However, Delta and Omicron variants had increased fitness within the borough. https://web.archive.org/web/20250613082221/https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.05.24303791v1 13 June 2025
Synonyms
en iota Iota
Coordinate terms
en Alpha variant Beta variant Gamma variant Delta variant Epsilon variant Zeta variant Eta variant Theta variant Kappa variant Lambda variant Mu variant Omicron variant Omega variant
Translations
strain of the COVID-19 virus
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn
Finnish: fi iootamuunnos
French: fr variant iota m
German: de Iota-Variante f
Greek: el
Japanese: ja イオタ株 iota kabu
Korean: ko 요타 변이
Portuguese: pt variante iota f
Romanian: ro
Russian: ru
Spanish: es variante iota f
Translingual: mul B.1.526
Further reading
SARS-CoV-2 Iota variant
en Types of coronaviruses COVID-19