1. Virology features of a family cluster of SARS-CoV-2 infections in Shanghai, China.
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Zhou Y, Teng Z, Chen H, Cui X, Fang F, Mou J, Jiang H, and Zhang X
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The global spread of SARS-CoV-2 is currently continuing, and the World Health Organization has announced the risk assessment of the viruses as high. In this study, we analyzed virology features of SARS-CoV-2 causing a family cluster outbreak. Among the six family members, five have been laboratory-confirmed infection of SARS-CoV-2 viruses. A total of five SARS-CoV-2 viruses have been isolated from the nasopharyngeal swabs. The complete genome of the viruses exhibited 100% nucleotide identity with each other. Only two nucleotide differences have been observed between genomes of the isolated viruses and the HCoV/Wuhan/ IVDC-HB-01/2019 strain. Therefore, SARS-CoV-2 has been confirmed as the causation of the family cluster infections., (© 2021 Chinese Medical Association Publishing House. Published by Elsevier BV.)
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- 2021
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