Epsilon variant

epsilon variant Epsilon Variant English Alternative forms en epsilon variant Epsilon Variant ε variant ε-variant Ε variant Ε-variant Proper noun (the) Epsilon variant The B.1.427 and B.1.429 strains of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19. en July 2 2021 Leila Gray Epsilon variant mutations help spur COVID immune evasion UW Medicine Newsroom https://web.archive.org/web/20230321052757/https://newsroom.uw.edu/news/epsilon-variant-mutations-contribute-covid-immune-evasion To learn more about the characteristics of the Epsilon variant, the researchers tested the resilience against the Epsilon variant of plasma from people who were exposed the virus, as well as vaccinated people. The neutralizing potency of the plasma against the Epsilon variant of concern was reduced about 2 to 3.5 fold. en 7 December 2021 Shangxin Yang; et al. Investigation of SARS-CoV-2 Epsilon Variant and Hospitalization Status by Genomic Surveillance in a Single Large Health System During the 2020-2021 Winter Surge in Southern California w:American Journal of Clinical Pathology 157 5 10.1093/ajcp/aqab203 Studies have shown the Epsilon variant is indeed more transmissible and has reduced susceptibility to bamlanivimab, which prompted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to consider it a variant of concern (VOC) until it became less frequent in June 2021. en 1 December 2022 Jasmine T Plummer; et al. US Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Epsilon Variant: Highly Transmissible but With an Adjusted Muted Host T-Cell Response w:Clinical Infectious Diseases 75 11 10.1093/cid/ciac295 The tendency of SARS-CoV-2 to become more infectious but less virulent with the epsilon variant is supported mechanistically by (1) the down-regulation of viral processing pathways seen in our multiomic analyses and (2) the lack of associations with increased hospitalizations. Synonyms en epsilon Epsilon Coordinate terms en Alpha variant Beta variant Gamma variant Delta variant Zeta variant Eta variant Theta variant Iota variant Kappa variant Lambda variant Mu variant Omicron variant Omega variant Translations strain of the COVID-19 virus Chinese: Mandarin: cmn ε變體 Finnish: fi epsilonmuunnos French: fr variant epsilon m German: de Epsilon-Variante f Greek: el Japanese: ja イプシロン株 ipushiron kabu Korean: ko 엡실론 변이 Portuguese: pt variante épsilon f Romanian: ro Russian: ru Spanish: es variante épsilon f Translingual: mul B.1.427, mul B.1.429 Further reading SARS-CoV-2 Epsilon variant en Types of coronaviruses COVID-19