| Autor: |
Sanjay Bhattacharya, Soumyadip Chatterji, Mammen Chandy, Aseem Yogishwar Mahajan, Gaurav Goel, Deepak Mishra, Priyanka Vivek, Parijat Das, Sudipto Mandal, Anup Chugani, Antra Mittal, Rajadurai Chinnasamy Perumal, Vedam L. Ramprasad, Ravi Gupta |
| Rok vydání: |
2023 |
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| Zdroj: |
Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology. 41:104-110 |
| ISSN: |
0255-0857 |
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Despite COVID vaccination with ChAdOx1 ncov-19 (COVISHIELD®) (ChAdOx1 ncov-19) a large number of healthcare workers (HCWs) were getting infected in wave-2 of the pandemic in a cancer hospital of India. It was important therefore to determine the genotypes responsible for vaccine breakthrough infections.Retrospective observational study of HCWs. Whole genome sequencing of SARS CoV-2 using Illumina NovaSeq was done. Mutations from both waves were compared to identify genomic correlates of transmissibility and vaccine breakthrough infections.Vaccine breakthrough infections were seen in 127 HCWs out of 1806 fully vaccinated staff (7.03%). Median number of HCWs infected per day in wave-1 was 0.92 versus 3.25 in wave-2. Majority of wave-1 samples belonged to B.1 and B.1.1 lineage. Variant of concern- Delta variant (90%), and variant of interest- Kappa variant (10%), was seen in only wave-2 samples. Total mutation observed in wave-2 samples (median = 44) was 1.8 times than wave-1 sample (median = 24). Spike protein in wave-2 samples had 13 non-synonymous mutation as compared to 8 seen in wave-1 samples. E484Q-vaccine escape mutant was detected in five samples of wave-2; T478K - highly infectious mutation was seen in 31 samples of wave-2. We identified a novelcoding disruptive in-frame deletion (c.467_472delAGTTCA, p. Glu156_Arg158delinsGly) in the Spike protein. This mutation was seen only in wave-2 (78%, n = 39) samples.The circulating virus strains in wave-2 infections demonstrated a greater degree of infectivity. There was a significant change in the genotypes observed in wave-1 and wave-2 infections along with almost twice the number of mutations. We noted that vaccine breakthrough infections (although mostly mild). |
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OpenAIRE |
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