Turnover of SARS-CoV-2 Lineages Shaped the Pandemic and Enabled the Emergence of New Variants in the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

In the present study, we provide a retrospective genomic epidemiology analysis of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. We gathered publicly available data from GISAID and sequenced 1927 new genomes sampled periodically from March 2021 to June 2021 from 91 out of the 92 cit...

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Main Authors: Ronaldo da Silva Francisco Junior, Alessandra P Lamarca, Luiz G P de Almeida, Liliane Cavalcante, Douglas Terra Machado, Yasmmin Martins, Otávio Brustolini, Alexandra L Gerber, Ana Paula de C Guimarães, Reinaldo Bellini Gonçalves, Cassia Alves, Diana Mariani, Thais Felix Cruz, Isabelle Vasconcellos de Souza, Erika Martins de Carvalho, Mario Sergio Ribeiro, Silvia Carvalho, Flávio Dias da Silva, Márcio Henrique de Oliveira Garcia, Leandro Magalhães de Souza, Cristiane Gomes da Silva, Caio Luiz Pereira Ribeiro, Andréa Cony Cavalcanti, Claudia Maria Braga de Mello, Cláudio J. Struchiner, Amilcar Tanuri, Ana Tereza R de Vasconcelos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-10-01
Series:Viruses
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/13/10/2013