Luis Artur Ferreira de Sousa, Lucas Salomão de Sousa Ferreira, Luis Felipe Lima Lobato, Hivylla Lorrana Dos Santos Ferreira, Lucas Henrique Dos Santos Sousa, Valdenice Ferreira Dos Santos, Paulo Ricardo Silva Nunes, Carlos Eduardo Campos Maramaldo, Sebastião Silveira Neto, Hellen Lobato Sampaio, Fabiano Vieira da Silva, Marcelo da Costa Brito, Washington Kleber Rodrigues Lima, Claudia Zeneida Gomes Parente Alves Lima, Lidio Gonçalves Lima Neto
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a coronavirus belonging to the beta CoV genus, responsible for SARS in humans, which became known as COVID-19. The emergence of variants of this virus is related to the presence of cases of reinfection, reduced vaccine effectiveness and greater transmission of the virus. Objective: In this study, we evaluated the molecular epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 lineages circulating in the state of Maranhão. This is a cross-sectional and retrospective epidemiological study of genomic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2...
September 2023: Journal of Medical Virology