Multiple SARS-CoV-2 Introductions Shaped the Early Outbreak in Central Eastern Europe: Comparing Hungarian Data to a Worldwide Sequence Data-Matrix

• Published in: Viruses Vol. 12; no. 12; p. 1401
• Main Authors: Kemenesi, Gábor, Zeghbib, Safia, Somogyi, Balázs A, Tóth, Gábor Endre, Bányai, Krisztián, Solymosi, Norbert, Szabo, Peter M, Szabó, István, Bálint, Ádám, Urbán, Péter, Herczeg, Róbert, Gyenesei, Attila, Nagy, Ágnes, Pereszlényi, Csaba István, Babinszky, Gergely Csaba, Dudás, Gábor, Terhes, Gabriella, Zöldi, Viktor, Lovas, Róbert, Tenczer, Szabolcs, Kornya, László, Jakab, Ferenc
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 06.12.2020; MDPI
• Subjects: China - epidemiology; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; COVID-19 - epidemiology; COVID-19 - virology; Data analysis; Disease Outbreaks; Disease transmission; Epidemics; Epidemiology; Europe - epidemiology; Europe, Eastern - epidemiology; Gene Regulatory Networks; Genome, Viral; Genomes; Growth models; Haplotypes; human coronavirus; Humans; Hungary - epidemiology; Laboratories; network analysis; Oropharynx - virology; outbreak; pandemic; Pandemics; phylodynamics; Phylogenetics; Phylogeny; RNA, Viral - genetics; SARS-CoV-2; SARS-CoV-2 - genetics; SARS-CoV-2 - isolation & purification; Sequence Analysis, DNA; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; Values; Europe, Eastern; Hungary; China; Europe; United States > US; Eastern Europe; outbreak; SARS-CoV-2; human coronavirus; network analysis; pandemic; phylodynamics

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 is the third highly pathogenic human coronavirus in history. Since the emergence in Hubei province, China, during late 2019, the situation evolved to pandemic level. Following China, Europe was the second epicenter of the pandemic. To better comprehend...