Hybrid versions of the coronavirus that combine genes from the Delta and Omicron variants have been identified in at least 17 patients in the United States and Europe, researchers said.
Hybrid versions of the coronavirus that combine genes from the Delta and Omicron variants - dubbed"Deltacron" - have been identified in at least 17 patients in the United States and Europe, researchers said.
His team described three patients in France infected with a version of SARS-CoV-2 that combines the spike protein from an Omicron variant with the "body" of a Delta variant. Genetic recombinations of human coronaviruses have been known to happen when two variants infect the same host cell. They also found mutations characteristic of a form of Delta and Iota, according to a report published on Tuesday in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
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