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First Report on the Latvian SARS-CoV-2 Isolate Genetic Diversity
- Source :
- Frontiers in Medicine, Vol 8 (2021), Frontiers in Medicine
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Frontiers Media S.A., 2021.
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Abstract
- Remaining a major healthcare concern with nearly 29 million confirmed cases worldwide at the time of writing, novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) has caused more than 920 thousand deaths since its outbreak in China, December 2019. First case of a person testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 infection within the territory of the Republic of Latvia was registered on 2nd of March 2020, 9 days prior to the pandemic declaration by WHO. Since then, more than 277,000 tests were carried out confirming a total of 1,464 cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the country as of 12th of September 2020. Rapidly reacting to the spread of the infection, an ongoing sequencing campaign was started mid-March in collaboration with the local testing laboratories, with an ultimate goal in sequencing as much local viral isolates as possible, resulting in first full-length SARS-CoV-2 isolate genome sequences from the Baltics region being made publicly available in early April. With 133 viral isolates representing ~9.1% of the total COVID-19 cases during the “first coronavirus wave” in the country (early March, 2020—mid-September, 2020) being completely sequenced as of today, here, we provide a first report on the genetic diversity of Latvian SARS-CoV-2 isolates.
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
HCoV-19
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
medicine.disease_cause
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Pandemic
medicine
China
Original Research
Coronavirus
Genetic diversity
lcsh:R5-920
SARS-CoV-2
Latvian
Outbreak
COVID-19
General Medicine
genetic diversity
Virology
Latvia
language.human_language
030104 developmental biology
Geography
2019-nCoV
language
Medicine
next-generation sequencing
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus
lcsh:Medicine (General)
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
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Details
- Language :
- English
- Volume :
- 8
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Frontiers in Medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....49c94248504cef4ba7a1f58afa268292
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2021.626000/full