Epsilon variant en · PROPN
Meanings
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The B.1.427 and B.1.429 strains of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.
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.
2021 December 7, 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”, in American Journal of Clinical Pathology, volume 157, number 5, →DOI: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.
2022 December 1, 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”, in Clinical Infectious Diseases, volume 75, number 11, →DOI: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.
2021 July 2, Leila Gray, “Epsilon variant mutations help spur COVID immune evasion”, in UW Medicine Newsroom, archived from the original on 21 Mar 2023:
Forms
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| ε-variant | alternative | lexicographic | |
| ε variant | alternative | lexicographic | |
| Ε variant | alternative | lexicographic | |
| Ε-variant | alternative | lexicographic | |
| Epsilon Variant | alternative | lexicographic | |
| epsilon variant | alternative | lexicographic |
Coordinates
Omicron variant · Omega variant · Lambda variant · Zeta variant · Eta variant · Delta variant · Mu variant · Beta variant · Alpha variant · Iota variant · Gamma variant · Theta variant · Kappa variant
Synonyms
Translations (10)
cmn ε變體 /ε变体 (strain of the COVID-19 virus) · mul B.1.429 (strain of the COVID-19 virus) · fr variant epsilon (strain of the COVID-19 virus) · ja イプシロン株 (strain of the COVID-19 virus) · mul B.1.427 (strain of the COVID-19 virus) · es variante épsilon (strain of the COVID-19 virus) · pt variante épsilon (strain of the COVID-19 virus) · ko 엡실론 변이 (strain of the COVID-19 virus) · fi epsilonmuunnos (strain of the COVID-19 virus) · de Epsilon-Variante (strain of the COVID-19 virus)