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Omicron Subvariants, Including BA.4 and BA.5, Substantially Preserve T Cell Epitopes of Ancestral SARS-CoV-2

  • Kyemyung Park (The Center for Viral Immunology, Korea Virus Research Institute, Institute for Basic Science (IBS)) ;
  • Seung Jin Choi (Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital) ;
  • Eui-Cheol Shin (The Center for Viral Immunology, Korea Virus Research Institute, Institute for Basic Science (IBS))
  • Received : 2022.06.05
  • Accepted : 2022.07.27
  • Published : 2022.08.03
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This work was supported by the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Republic of Korea, under project code IBS-R801-D2.

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