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Emergence of a novel SARS-CoV-2 Pango lineage B.1.1.526 in West Bengal, India.
Journal of infection and public health - 1 Jan 2022
Sarkar Rakesh, Saha Ritubrita, Mallick Pratik, Sharma Ranjana, Kaur Amandeep, Dutta Shanta, Chawla-Sarkar Mamta
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BACKGROUND: Since its inception in late 2019, SARS-CoV-2 has been evolving continuously by procuring mutations, leading to emergence of numerous variants, causing second wave of pandemic in many countries including India in 2021. To control this pandemic continuous mutational surveillance and genomic epidemiology of circulating strains is very important to unveil the emergence of the novel variants and also...
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