Emergence of a novel SARS-CoV-2 Pango lineage B.1.1.526 in West Bengal, India.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Since its inception in late 2019, SARS-CoV-2 has been evolving continuously by procuring mutations, leading to emergence of numerous variants, causing second wave of pandemic in many countries including India in 2021. To control this pandemic continuous mutational surveillance and genomic epidemiology of circulating strains is very important to unveil the emergence of the novel variants and also monitor the evolution of existing variants.

Methods

SARS-CoV-2 sequences were retrieved from GISAID database. Sequence alignment was performed with MAFT version 7. Phylogenetic tree was constructed by using MEGA (version X) and UShER.

Results

In this study, we reported the emergence of a novel variant of SARS-CoV-2, named B.1.1.526, in India. This novel variant enco

SUBMITTER: Sarkar R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8642833 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature