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Limited spread of a rare spike E484K-harboring SARS-CoV-2 in Marseille, France.
Archives of virology - 1 Feb 2022
Colson Philippe, Fantini Jacques, Yahi Nouara, Delerce Jeremy, Levasseur Anthony, Fournier Pierre-Edouard, Lagier Jean-Christophe, Raoult Didier, La Scola Bernard
Abstract excerpt
We detected SARS-CoV-2 of PANGO lineage R.1 with the spike substitution E484K in three patients. Eleven other sequences in France and 8,831 worldwide were available from GISAID, 92% originating from Japan. The three genome sequences from our institute were phylogenetically closest to another from Guinea-Conakry, where one of the patients had travelled. These viruses did not exhibit any unusual features in cell...
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