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- Title
Importation and early local transmission of COVID-19 in Brazil, 2020.
- Authors
de Jesus, Jaqueline Goes; Sacchi, Claudio; da Silva Candido, Darlan; Claro, Ingra Morales; Silva Sales, Flávia Cristina; Manuli, Erika Regina; Borges da Silva, Daniela Bernardes; de Paiva, Terezinha Maria; Benega Pinho, Margarete Aparecida; de Oliveira Santos, Katia Correa; Hill, Sarah Catherine; Aguiar, Renato Santana; Romero, Filipe; Pereira dos Santos, Fabiana Cristina; Gonçalves, Claudia Regina; do Carmo Timenetsky, Maria; Quick, Joshua; Rosa Croda, Julio Henrique; de Oliveira, Wanderson; Rambaut, Andrew
- Abstract
We conducted the genome sequencing and analysis of the first confirmed COVID-19 infections in Brazil. Rapid sequencing coupled with phylogenetic analyses in the context of travel history corroborate multiple independent importations from Italy and local spread during the initial stage of COVID-19 transmission in Brazil.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; ITALY; COVID-19; PUBLIC health surveillance; NUCLEOTIDE sequencing
- Publication
Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 2020, Vol 62, p1
- ISSN
0036-4665
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/S1678-9946202062030