Distinct antigenic properties of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron lineages BA.4 and BA.5
B. J. Willett, A. Kurshan, N. Thakur, J. Newman, M. Manali, G. Tyson, N. Logan, P. R. Murcia, L. B. Snell, J. D. Edgeworth, J. Zhou, K. Sukhova, G. Amirthalingam, K. Brown, B. Charleston, , T. P. Peacock
This study compares the antigenic properties of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variants BA.4 and BA.5 with BA.1, BA.2, and vaccine-induced antibodies, finding they are antigenically distinct and show enhanced neutralisation breadth after breakthrough infection.
bioRxiv · May 25, 2022 · PreprintMicrobiology