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- Title
Early Warning Surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variants, United Kingdom, November 2021-September 2022.
- Authors
Foulkes, Sarah; Monk, Edward J. M.; Sparkes, Dominic; Hettiarachchi, Nipunadi; Milligan, Iain D.; Munro, Katie; Taylor-Kerr, Andrew; Platt, Naomi; Howells, Anna; Ye Aung Kyaw, Jerry; Adaji, Enemona; Gallagher, Eileen; Khawam, Jameel; Wellington, Edgar; Price, Lesley; Crossman, David; Norman, Chris; de Lacy, Elen; Cromey, Lisa; Corrigan, Diane
- Abstract
Since June 2020, the SARS-CoV-2 Immunity and Reinfection Evaluation (SIREN) study has conducted routine PCR testing in UK healthcare workers and sequenced PCRpositive samples. SIREN detected increases in infections and reinfections and detected Omicron subvariant waves emergence contemporaneous with national surveillance. SIREN's sentinel surveillance methods can be used for variant surveillance.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant; MEDICAL personnel; DIAGNOSTIC use of polymerase chain reaction; REINFECTION; SARS-CoV-2
- Publication
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2023, Vol 29, Issue 1, p184
- ISSN
1080-6040
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3201/eid2901.221293