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Rapid, widespread, and preferential increase of SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7 variant in Houston, TX, revealed by 8,857 genome sequences
2021-03-24
Abstract excerpt
Genetic variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus have become of great interest worldwide because they have the potential to detrimentally alter the course of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, and disease in individual patients. We recently sequenced 20,453 SARS- CoV-2 genomes from patients with COVID-19 disease in metropolitan Houston (population 7 million), dating from March 2020 to early February 2021. We discovered that all maj...
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- Literature Corpus work
- b9e1647c-b122-56d3-90e3-5d0ea16fba61
- DOI
- 10.1101/2021.03.16.21253753
