Delta variant en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈdɛltə ˈvɛəɹiənt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈdɛltə ˈvæɹiənt/ (General-American)
- (Southern-England) audio
Meanings
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The highly virulent B.1.617.2 strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.
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
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, →DOI, page 1: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.
2021 July 2, The NT News, Darwin, page 23, column 2: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 June 25, “Unique Binding Ability of Delta Variant”, in USA Today, page 6:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| Δ variant | alternative | lexicographic | |
| δ variant | alternative | lexicographic | |
| Delta Variant | alternative | lexicographic | |
| δ-variant | alternative | lexicographic | |
| delta variant | alternative | lexicographic | |
| Δ-variant | alternative | lexicographic |
Coordinates
Omicron variant · Omega variant · Lambda variant · Zeta variant · Eta variant · Epsilon variant · Mu variant · Beta variant · Alpha variant · Iota variant · Gamma variant · Theta variant · Kappa variant
Deriveds
delta plus · Delta+ Variant · deltacron · Delta+ · Delta+ variant · δ+ variant · Delta Plus Variant · Delta plus variant · δ+-variant · delta plus variant · Delta Plus variant · delta+ · δ+ · Delta plus · delta+ variant · Δ+-variant · Δ+ variant · Δ+ · Delta Plus
Synonyms
double mutant strain · Delta strain · India strain · Delta · India variant · double mutation variant · double mutation strain · double mutant variant · Indian strain · delta strain · Indian variant · delta · Delta Strain
Translations (10)
cmn 德爾塔毒株 /德尔塔毒株 (strain of the COVID-19 virus) · es variante delta (strain of the COVID-19 virus) · cmn 德尔塔毒株 (strain of the COVID-19 virus) · ja デルタ株 (strain of the COVID-19 virus) · ko 델타 변이 (strain of the COVID-19 virus) · mul B.1.617.2 (strain of the COVID-19 virus) · fi deltamuunnos (strain of the COVID-19 virus) · fr variant delta (strain of the COVID-19 virus) · de Delta-Variante (strain of the COVID-19 virus) · pt variante delta (strain of the COVID-19 virus)