Delta variant
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See also: delta variant and Delta Variant
English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]- The highly virulent B.1.617.2 strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.
- 2021 July 2, The NT News, Darwin, page 23, column 2:
- If no new cases come from the Buff Club exposure site, it will be hard to believe politicians scaremongering that the delta variant is so infectious that all you have to do is walk past an infected person to get it.
- 2022 June 25, “Unique Binding Ability of Delta Variant”, in USA Today, page 6:
- Unlike other SARS-CoV-2 variants, the Delta variant can attach to copies of itself, forming larger aggregations, or clumps, of viral particles, suggests a study by scientists at the National Institutes of Health.
- 2022 September 22, Anton Barchuk, Anna Bulina, Mikhail Cherkashin, Natalia Berezina, Tatyana Rakova, Darya Kuplevatskaya, Oksana Stanevich, Dmitriy Skougarevskiy, Artemiy Okhotin, “COVID-19 vaccines effectiveness against symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 during Delta variant surge”, in BMC Public Health, , page 1:
- Studies of mRNA and vector-based vaccines used in different countries report acceptable levels of effectiveness against SARS-CoV-2 infection caused by the Delta variants of SARS-CoV-2
Synonyms
[edit]- delta
- Delta
- delta strain
- Delta strain
- Delta Strain
- double mutant strain (Indian English)
- double mutant variant (Indian English)
- double mutation strain (Indian English)
- double mutation variant (Indian English)
- Indian strain
- Indian variant
- India strain
- India variant
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[edit]strain of the COVID-19 virus
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