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

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/22221751.2022.2032375
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 552 – 555

Abstract

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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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