1. Genetic Diversity of SARS-CoV-2 among Travelers Arriving in Hong Kong
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Haogao Gu, Daniel K.W. Chu, Lydia D.J. Chang, Sammi S.Y. Cheuk, Shreya Gurung, Pavithra Krishnan, Daisy Y.M. Ng, Gigi Y.Z. Liu, Carrie K.C. Wan, Ruopeng Xie, Samuel S.M. Cheng, Benjamin J. Cowling, Dominic N.C. Tsang, Malik Peiris, Vijaykrishna Dhanasekaran, and Leo L.M. Poon
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coronavirus disease ,COVID-19 ,disease transmission control ,genomic diversity ,public health ,public health readiness ,Medicine ,Infectious and parasitic diseases ,RC109-216 - Abstract
We sequenced 10% of imported severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infections detected in travelers to Hong Kong and revealed the genomic diversity of regions of origin, including lineages not previously reported from those countries. Our results suggest that international or regional travel hubs might be useful surveillance sites to monitor sequence diversity.
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- 2021
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