Substantial Diversity in Cocirculating Omicron Lineages in Hospital Setting, Porto Alegre, Brazil
oleh: Tiago F. Andreis, Vlademir V. Cantarelli, Marcelo B. da Silva, Mateus S. Helfer, Flávia R. Brust, Alexandre P. Zavascki
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| Diterbitkan: | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2023-12-01 |
Deskripsi
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.