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Occurrence of a substitution or deletion of SARS-CoV-2 spike amino acid 677 in various lineages in Marseille, France.
Virus genes - 1 Feb 2022
Colson Philippe, Delerce Jeremy, Burel Emilie, Beye Mamadou, Fournier Pierre-Edouard, Levasseur Anthony, Lagier Jean-Christophe, Raoult Didier
Abstract excerpt
Great concerns have been raised about SARS-CoV-2 variants over the past six months. At the end of 2020, an increasing incidence of spike substitutions Q677H/P was described in the USA, which involved six independent lineages. We searched for changes to this amino acid in the sequence database of SARS-CoV-2 genomes obtained at the IHU Méditerranée Infection (Marseille, France) from 3634 patients sampled between...
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