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Real-time quantification of the transmission advantage associated with a single mutation in pathogen genomes: a case study on the D614G substitution of SARS-CoV-2.
BMC infectious diseases - 7 Oct 2021
Zhao Shi, Lou Jingzhi, Cao Lirong, Zheng Hong, Chong Marc K C, Chen Zigui, Chan Renee W Y, Zee Benny C Y, Chan Paul K S, Wang Maggie H
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BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic poses serious threats to global health, and the emerging mutation in SARS-CoV-2 genomes, e.g., the D614G substitution, is one of the major challenges of disease control. Characterizing the role of the mutation activities is of importance to understand how the evolution of pathogen shapes the epidemiological outcomes at population scale. METHODS: We developed a statistical...
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