SARS-CoV-2 BW lineage, a fast-growing Omicron variant from southeast Mexico bearing relevant escape mutations.

Rodrigo García-López Xaira Rivera-Gutiérrez Mauricio Rosales-Rivera Selene Zarate José Esteban Muñoz-Medina Benjamin Roche Alfredo Herrera-Estrella Bruno Gómez-Gil Alejandro Sánchez-Flores Blanca Itzel Taboada-Ramírez Carlos F Arias

Published in: Infection (2023)

BW.1 appears to have arisen in the Yucatan Peninsula in Southeast Mexico sometime around July 2022 during the fifth COVID-19 wave. Its rapid growth may be in part explained by the relevant escape mutations also found in BQ.1.

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