SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Interest and Concern naming scheme conducive for global discourse

Frank Konings; Mark D. Perkins; Jens H. Kuhn; Mark J. Pallen; Erik J. Alm; Brett N. Archer; Amal Barakat; Trevor Bedford; Jinal N. Bhiman; Leon Caly; Lisa L. Carter; Anne Cullinane; Tulio de Oliveira; Julian Druce; Ihab El Masry; Roger Evans; George F. Gao; Alexander E. Gorbalenya; Esther Hamblion; Belinda L. Herring; Emma Hodcroft; Edward C. Holmes; Manish Kakkar; Shagun Khare; Marion P.G. Koopmans; Bette Korber; Juliana Leite; Duncan MacCannell; Marco Marklewitz; Sebastian Maurer-Stroh; Jairo Andres Mendez Rico; Vincent J. Munster; Richard Neher; Bas Oude Munnink; Boris I. Pavlin; Malik Peiris; Leo Poon; Oliver Pybus; Andrew Rambaut; Paola Resende; Lorenzo Subissi; Volker Thiel; Suxiang Tong; Sylvie van der Werf; Anne von Gottberg; John Ziebuhr; Maria D. Van Kerkhove

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SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Interest and Concern naming scheme conducive for global discourse

Frank Konings, Mark D. Perkins, Jens H. Kuhn, Mark J. Pallen, Erik J. Alm, Brett N. Archer, Amal Barakat, Trevor Bedford, Jinal N. Bhiman, Leon Caly, Lisa L. Carter, Anne Cullinane, Tulio de Oliveira, Julian Druce, Ihab El Masry, Roger Evans, George F. Gao, Alexander E. Gorbalenya, Esther Hamblion, Belinda L. HerringEmma Hodcroft, Edward C. Holmes, Manish Kakkar, Shagun Khare, Marion P.G. Koopmans, Bette Korber, Juliana Leite, Duncan MacCannell, Marco Marklewitz, Sebastian Maurer-Stroh, Jairo Andres Mendez Rico, Vincent J. Munster, Richard Neher, Bas Oude Munnink, Boris I. Pavlin, Malik Peiris, Leo Poon, Oliver Pybus, Andrew Rambaut, Paola Resende, Lorenzo Subissi, Volker Thiel, Suxiang Tong, Sylvie van der Werf, Anne von Gottberg, John Ziebuhr, Maria D. Van Kerkhove

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Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	821-823
Number of pages	3
Journal	Nature Microbiology
Volume	6
Issue number	7
Early online date	9 Jun 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-021-00932-w
Publication status	Published - Jul 2021

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Konings, F., Perkins, M. D., Kuhn, J. H., Pallen, M. J., Alm, E. J., Archer, B. N., Barakat, A., Bedford, T., Bhiman, J. N., Caly, L., Carter, L. L., Cullinane, A., de Oliveira, T., Druce, J., El Masry, I., Evans, R., Gao, G. F., Gorbalenya, A. E., Hamblion, E., ... Van Kerkhove, M. D. (2021). SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Interest and Concern naming scheme conducive for global discourse. Nature Microbiology, 6(7), 821-823. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-021-00932-w

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