Emerging Microbes and Infections (Dec 2022)
Possible recombination between two variants of concern in a COVID-19 patient
- Yaqing He,
- Wentai Ma,
- Shengyuan Dang,
- Long Chen,
- Renli Zhang,
- Shujiang Mei,
- Xinyi Wei,
- Qiuying Lv,
- Bo Peng,
- Jiancheng Chen,
- Dongfeng Kong,
- Ying Sun,
- Xiujuan Tang,
- Weihua Wu,
- Zhigao Chen,
- Shimin Li,
- Jia Wan,
- Xuan Zou,
- Mingkun Li,
- Tiejian Feng,
- Lili Ren,
- Jianwei Wang
Affiliations
- Yaqing He
- Shenzhen Research Center for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
- Wentai Ma
- Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and China National Center for Bioinformation
- Shengyuan Dang
- Institute of Pathogen Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College
- Long Chen
- Shenzhen Research Center for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
- Renli Zhang
- Shenzhen Research Center for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
- Shujiang Mei
- Shenzhen Research Center for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
- Xinyi Wei
- Shenzhen Research Center for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
- Qiuying Lv
- Shenzhen Research Center for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
- Bo Peng
- Shenzhen Research Center for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
- Jiancheng Chen
- Shenzhen Research Center for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
- Dongfeng Kong
- Shenzhen Research Center for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
- Ying Sun
- Shenzhen Research Center for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
- Xiujuan Tang
- Shenzhen Research Center for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
- Weihua Wu
- Shenzhen Research Center for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
- Zhigao Chen
- Shenzhen Research Center for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
- Shimin Li
- Shenzhen Research Center for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
- Jia Wan
- Shenzhen Research Center for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
- Xuan Zou
- Shenzhen Research Center for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
- Mingkun Li
- Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and China National Center for Bioinformation
- Tiejian Feng
- Shenzhen Research Center for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
- Lili Ren
- Institute of Pathogen Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College
- Jianwei Wang
- Institute of Pathogen Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1080/22221751.2022.2032375
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 11,
no. 1
pp. 552 – 555
Abstract
We identified an individual who was coinfected with two SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern, the Beta and Delta variants. The ratio of the relative abundance between the two variants was maintained at 1:9 (Beta:Delta) in 14 days. Furthermore, possible evidence of recombinations in the Orf1ab and Spike genes was found.
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