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

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 B...

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Published in:	Emerging infectious diseases Vol. 29; no. 12; pp. 2583 - 2586
Main Authors:	Andreis, Tiago F, Cantarelli, Vlademir V, da Silva, Marcelo B, Helfer, Mateus S, Brust, Flavia R, Zavascki, Alexandre P
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Atlanta U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases 01-12-2023 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Subjects:	BE.9 Brazil Causes of coronavirus disease COVID-19 COVID-19 vaccines Disease control Disease prevention Disease transmission Diseases Epidemics Epidemiology Genomes Health aspects Hospital patients Hospitals Infections Infectious diseases Medical personnel Mutation Omicron Population Research Letter SARS-CoV-2 Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 Substantial Diversity in Cocirculating Omicron Lineages in Hospital Setting, Porto Alegre, Brazil Virus research Brazil United States > US
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Summary:	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.
Bibliography:	ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention GAIHN-HAI team comprises of Matthew Westercamp, Valery Tashayev, Morgane Donadel, Reed Magleby, Emily Petersen, and Garrett Mahon.
ISSN:	1080-6040 1080-6059
DOI:	10.3201/eid2912.230880