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Multiple Occurrences of a 168-Nucleotide Deletion in SARS-CoV-2 ORF8, Unnoticed by Standard Amplicon Sequencing and Variant Calling Pipelines.
Viruses - 18 Sept 2021
Brandt David, Simunovic Marina, Busche Tobias, Haak Markus, Belmann Peter, Jünemann Sebastian, Schulz Tizian, Klages Levin Joe, Vinke Svenja, Beckstette Michael, Pohl Ehmke, Scherer Christiane, Sczyrba Alexander, Kalinowski Jörn
Abstract excerpt
Genomic surveillance of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is crucial and mainly achieved by amplicon sequencing protocols. Overlapping tiled-amplicons are generated to establish contiguous SARS-CoV-2 genome sequences, which enable the precise resolution of infection chains and outbreaks. We investigated a SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in a local hospital and used nanopore sequencing with a modified ARTIC protocol employing 1200 bp...
Topics
- COVID-19
- Genes, Viral
- Genetic Variation
- Humans
- Nanopore Sequencing
- Open Reading Frames
- SARS-CoV-2
- Sequence Analysis, RNA
- Sequence Deletion
- Whole Genome Sequencing
