An emergent clade of SARS-CoV-2 linked to returned travellers from Iran
Preprint
- 17 March 2020
- preprint
- Published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in bioRxiv
Abstract
The SARS-CoV-2 epidemic has rapidly spread outside China with major outbreaks occurring in Italy, South Korea and Iran. Phylogenetic analyses of whole genome sequencing data identified a distinct SARS-CoV-2 clade linked to travellers returning from Iran to Australia and New Zealand. This study highlights potential viral diversity driving the epidemic in Iran, and underscores the power of rapid genome sequencing and public data sharing to improve the detection and management of emerging infectious diseases.Keywords
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- Published version: Virus Evolution, 6 (1), veaa027.
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