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SARS-CoV-2 Quasispecies Provides an Advantage Mutation Pool for the Epidemic Variants.
Microbiology spectrum - 3 Sept 2021
Sun Fengming, Wang Xiuhua, Tan Shun, Dan Yunjie, Lu Yanqiu, Zhang Juan, Xu Junli, Tan Zhaoxia, Xiang Xiaomei, Zhou Yi, He Weiwei, Wan Xing, Zhang Wei, Chen Yaokai, Tan Wenting, Deng Guohong
Abstract excerpt
The dynamics of quasispecies afford RNA viruses a great fitness on cell tropism and host range. To study the quasispecies features and the intra-host evolution of SARS-CoV-2, we collected nine confirmed patients and sequenced the haplotypes of spike gene using a single-molecule real-time platform. Fourteen samples were extracted from sputum, nasopharyngeal swabs, or stool, which in total produced 283,655...
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