Coronavirus: What is a recombinant?

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20 minutes

This is the latest surprise for SARS-CoV-2… After the discovery of variants - English, Brazilian, South African, Scottish, Breton or even Belgian - here are the recombinants.

The COG-UK consortium, which is based in the United Kingdom and is responsible for sequencing and analyzing genomes, announced on March 17 that it had observed around fifteen of these recombinants.

We explain to you in the video at the head of the article what this mutation consists of - which is in fact a mixture of two variants - which hardly worries scientists.

For the time being.

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