Genome Sequencing Reveals a Mixed Picture of SARS-CoV-2 Variant of Concern Circulation in Eastern Uttar Pradesh, India

• Published in: Frontiers in medicine Vol. 8; p. 781287
• Main Authors: Deval, Hirawati, Nyayanit, Dimpal A., Mishra, Shailendra Kumar, Yadav, Pragya D., Zaman, Kamran, Shankar, Prem, Misra, Brij R., Behera, Sthita Pragnya, Kumar, Niraj, Kumar, Abhinendra, Bhardwaj, Pooja, Dwivedi, Gaurav Raj, Singh, Rajeev, Shete, Anita M., Pandit, Priyanka, Pandey, Ashok K., Yadav, Girijesh Kumar, Gupta, Shashi, Kumar, Manoj, Kavathekar, Asif, Singh, Ravi Shankar, Prajapati, Sanjay, Kant, Rajni
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland Frontiers Media S.A 07.01.2022
• Subjects: COVID-19 breakthrough infection; Eastern Uttar Pradesh India; Medicine; mutations; SARS-CoV-2; variant of concern; whole-genome sequencing; variant of concern; SARS-CoV-2; mutations; Eastern Uttar Pradesh India; COVID-19 breakthrough infection; whole-genome sequencing

Uttar Pradesh is the densely populated state of India and is the sixth highest COVID-19 affected state with 22,904 deaths recorded on November 12, 2021. Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) is being used as a potential approach to investigate genomic evolution of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coron...