Co-infection with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron and Delta variants revealed by genomic surveillance.

ABSTRACT: Co-infections with different variants of SARS-CoV-2 are a key precursor to recombination events that are likely to drive SARS-CoV-2 evolution. Rapid identification of such co-infections is required to determine their frequency in the community, particularly in populations at-risk of severe COVID-19, which have already been identified as incubators for punctuated evolutionary events. However, limited data and tools are currently available to detect and characterise the SARS-CoV-2 co-infections associated with recognised variants of concern. Here we describe co-infection with the SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern Omicron and Delta in two epidemiologically unrelated adult patients with chronic kidney disease requiring maintenance haemodialysis. Both variants were co-circulating in the community

SUBMITTER: Rockett RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9117272 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature