Emergence and spread of a SARS-CoV-2 variant through Europe in the summer of 2020
| Autor: | Emma B, Hodcroft, Moira, Zuber, Sarah, Nadeau, Timothy G, Vaughan, Katharine H D, Crawford, Christian L, Althaus, Martina L, Reichmuth, John E, Bowen, Alexandra C, Walls, Davide, Corti, Jesse D, Bloom, David, Veesler, David, Mateo, Alberto, Hernando, Iñaki, Comas, Fernando, González Candelas, Tanja, Stadler, Richard A, Neher |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Fonds National Suisse de la Recherche Scientifique, University of Basel, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (España), European Commission, European Research Council, Hodcroft, Emma B., Nadeau, Sarah, Comas, Iñaki, González-Candelas, Fernando, Stadler, Tanja, Neher, Richard A., Hodcroft, Emma B. [0000-0002-0078-2212], Nadeau, Sarah [0000-0003-1008-8918], Comas, Iñaki [0000-0001-5504-9408], González-Candelas, Fernando [0000-0002-0879-5798], Stadler, Tanja [0000-0001-6431-535X], Neher, Richard A. [0000-0003-2525-1407] |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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| Zdroj: | Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC instname |
| Popis: | A variant of SARS-CoV-2 emerged in early summer 2020, presumably in Spain, and has since spread to multiple European countries. The variant was first observed in Spain in June and has been at frequencies above 40% since July. Outside of Spain, the frequency of this variant has increased from very low values prior to 15th July to 40-70% in Switzerland, Ireland, and the United Kingdom in September. It is also prevalent in Norway, Latvia, the Netherlands, and France. Little can be said about other European countries because few recent sequences are available. Sequences in this cluster (20A.EU1) differ from ancestral sequences at 6 or more positions, including the mutation A222V in the spike protein and A220V in the nucleoprotein. We show that this variant was exported from Spain to other European countries multiple times and that much of the diversity of this cluster in Spain is observed across Europe. It is currently unclear whether this variant is spreading because of a transmission advantage of the virus or whether high incidence in Spain followed by dissemination through tourists is sufficient to explain the rapid rise in multiple countries. This work was supported by the SNF through grant numbers 31CA30 196046 (to RAN, EBH) and 31CA30 196267 and core funding by the University of Basel. SeqCOVID-SPAIN is funded by the Instituto de Salud Carlos III project COV20/00140, Spanish National Research Council and ERC StG 638553 to IC. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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