Genomic Surveillance Tracks the First Community Outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta (B.1.617.2) Variant in Brazil
Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: As 2021 comes to a close, the advances in vaccination against COVID-19 allow the world to glimpse an end to the pandemic. In Brazil, the disease has cost more than 600,000 lives and affected more than 21 million people. When the second wave of COVID-19 hit in early 2021, the country saw more than 3,500 daily deaths. As Brazil started to recover from this number, the first reports of infection by the Delta (B.1.617.2) variant of concern (VoC) in the country were emerging. The first confirmed case of this variant occurred on 26 April 2021, with five states registering infections by it in the following 3 months. At the time, these cases were considered isolated or contained imported events. Here, we describe the early phase of the first large-scale community transmission of the Delta variant in Brazil and the associated interstate dispersal.
Source: Journal of Virology
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.01228-21
Authors: Alessandra P. Lamarca, Luiz G. P. de Almeida, Ronaldo da Silva Francisco, Liliane Cavalcante, Douglas Terra Machado, Otávio Brustolini, Alexandra L. Gerber, Ana Paula de C. Guimarães, Cintia Policarpo, Gleidson da Silva de Oliveira, Lidia Theodoro Boullosa, Isabelle Vasconcellos de Souza, Erika Martins de Carvalho, Mario Sergio Ribeiro, Silvia Carvalho, Flávio Dias da Silva, Marcio Henrique de Oliveira Garcia, Leandro Magalhães de Souza, Cristiane Gomes Da Silva, Caio Luiz Pereira Ribeiro, Andréa Cony Cavalcanti, Claudia Maria Braga de Mello, Amilcar Tanuri, Ana Tereza R. Vasconcelos
Language: English
Subfield: Infectious Diseases
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3208957435