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One year into the pandemic: Short-term evolution of SARS-CoV-2 and emergence of new lineages.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Aug 2021
González-Candelas Fernando, Shaw Marie-Anne, Phan Tung, Kulkarni-Kale Urmila, Paraskevis Dimitrios, Luciani Fabio, Kimura Hirokazu, Sironi Manuela
Abstract excerpt
The COVID-19 pandemic was officially declared on March 11th, 2020. Since the very beginning, the spread of the virus has been tracked nearly in real-time by worldwide genome sequencing efforts. As of March 2021, more than 830,000 SARS-CoV-2 genomes have been uploaded in GISAID and this wealth of data allowed researchers to study the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 during this first pandemic year. In parallel,...
Topics
- Biological Evolution
- COVID-19
- COVID-19 Vaccines
- Genetic Variation
- Humans
- SARS-CoV-2
- Vaccination