A paper by Kei Sato’s group (Division of Systems Immunology) was published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

Virological characteristics of the SARS-CoV-2 XEC variant.

Kaku Y, Okumura K, Kawakubo S, Uriu K, Chen L, Kosugi Y, Uwamino Y, Begum MM, Leong S, Ikeda T, Sadamasu K, Asakura H, Nagashima M, Yoshimura K; Genotype to Phenotype Japan (G2P-Japan) Consortium; Ito J, Sato K.