Efficacy of Antiviral Agents against the Omicron Subvariant BA.2.75
Emi Takashita1, Seiya Yamayoshi2, Shuetsu Fukushi1
1National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan.
The New England Journal of Medicine
|September 19, 2022
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