Genome sequence analysis of SARS-COV-2 isolated from a COVID-19 patient in Erbil, Iraq.

ABSTRACT: In the city of Wuhan, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was first recognized among humans at the end of December 2019, and has since spread to every country around the world. The emergence of this new coronavirus has attracted global attention to work towards finding a treatment and developing an effective vaccine against the virus. In this study, we sequence a full genome of SARS-COV-2 isolated from a male patient in the city of Erbil, Iraq. The virus was sequenced using Sanger sequencer and 21 distinct mutations were found in our isolate compared to the full genome sequence of the SARS-COV-2 isolated from the city of Wuhan/China (Accession number: NC_045512.2). Sequence analysis showed that four of the mutations were located at the spike glycoprotein (S), and t

SUBMITTER: Hussen BM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8818371 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature