A single nucleotide distinguishes the SARS-CoV-2 in the Wuhan outbreak in December 2019 from that in Beijing-Xinfadi in June 2020, China

Y.-Q. Pan; A.N. Bahoussi; F. Guo; L. Xing

New Microbes and New Infections (Jan 2021)

A single nucleotide distinguishes the SARS-CoV-2 in the Wuhan outbreak in December 2019 from that in Beijing-Xinfadi in June 2020, China

Y.-Q. Pan,
A.N. Bahoussi,
F. Guo,
L. Xing

Affiliations

Y.-Q. Pan: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, China
A.N. Bahoussi: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, China
F. Guo: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, China
L. Xing: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, China; Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Cell Biology of Shanxi Province, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, China; Shanxi Provincial Key Laboratory for Prevention and Treatment of Major Infectious Diseases, Taiyuan, China; Corresponding author: L. Xing, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Shanxi University, 92 Wucheng Road, Taiyuan, 030006, Shanxi Province, China.

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 39
p. 100835

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Two major locally transmitted outbreaks of coronavirus disease 2019 occurred in China, one in Wuhan from December 2019 to April 2020, another in Beijing-Xinfadi in June 2020. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 isolated from these two outbreaks can be distinguished by a conserved pyrimidine nucleotide located at nucleotide position 241 in the 5′-untranslated region of the virus genome.

Published in New Microbes and New Infections

ISSN: 2052-2975 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Infectious and parasitic diseases
Website: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/new-microbes-and-new-infections

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