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Detection of SARS-CoV-2 variants requires urgent global coordination.
International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases - 1 Aug 2021
Duarte Carlos M, Jamil Tahira, Gojobori Takashi, Alam Intikhab
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OBJECTIVES: To assess the efforts deployed by different nations and territories in sequencing SARS-CoV-2 isolates, thus enabling detection of variants, known and novel, of concern. METHODS: The sources of over one million full genome sequences of SARS-CoV-2 virus available in the COVID-19 virus Mutation Tracker (CovMT) were analyzed to determine the number of variants in the RBD region of the genome determining...
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