Substantial Diversity in Cocirculating Omicron Lineages in Hospital Setting, Porto Alegre, Brazil

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Andreis, Tiago F. ; Cantarelli, Vlademir V. ; da Silva, Marcelo B. ; Helfer, Mateus S. ; Brust, Flávia R. ; Zavascki, Alexandre P.
• Corporate Authors:
  GAIHN-HAI Team1
• Description:
  We describe substantial variant diversity among 23 detected SARS-CoV-2 Omicron lineage viruses cocirculating among healthcare workers and inpatients (272 sequenced samples) from Porto Alegre, Brazil, during November 2022-January 2023. BQ.1 and related lineages (61.4%) were most common, followed by BE.9 (19.1%), first described in November 2022 in the Amazon region.
• Subjects:
  Research Letter Substantial Diversity In Cocirculating Omicron Lineages In Hospital Setting, Porto Alegre, Brazil
• Keywords:
  BE.9 Brazil Coronavirus Disease COVID-19 Health Personnel Hospitals Humans Inpatients Omicron Respiratory Infections SARS-CoV-2 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Vaccine-preventable Diseases Viruses Zoonoses

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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 2023; 29(12):2583-2586
• Pubmed ID:
  37966098
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC10683828
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Volume:
  29
• Issue:
  12
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:dd569b1109b4f40e7aca9728f9e3c8d63354a166b568f2f78a0f3d3cab7c8cd1
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/138532/cdc_138532_DS1.pdf
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