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Tracing the First Days of the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic in Greece and the Role of the First Imported Group of Travelers

Published:2022-12-21 Issue:6 Volume:10 Page:
ISSN:2165-0497
Container-title:Microbiology Spectrum
language:en
Short-container-title:Microbiol Spectr

Author:

Bousali Maria¹^ORCID,Pogka Vasiliki¹²,Vatsellas Giannis³,Loupis Theodoros³⁴,Athanasiadis Emmanouil I.³,Zoi Katerina³⁴,Thanos Dimitris³,Paraskevis Dimitrios⁵^ORCID,Mentis Andreas²,Karamitros Timokratis¹²^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Bioinformatics and Applied Genomics Unit, Department of Microbiology, Hellenic Pasteur Institute, Athens, Greece

2. Laboratory of Medical Microbiology, Department of Microbiology, Hellenic Pasteur Institute, Athens, Greece

3. Greek Genome Center, Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens (BRFAA), Athens, Greece

4. Haematology Research Laboratory, Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens (BRFAA), Athens, Greece

5. Department of Hygiene Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Abstract

The strain that dominated in Greece during the first pandemic wave was primarily imported from a group of returning travelers in February 2020, while molecular and clinical data suggest that the origin of the transmission was Egypt. The observed molecular transmission clusters reflect the transmission dynamics of this particular strain bearing the D614G mutation while highlighting the necessity of their use as a surveillance tool for the prioritization of nonpharmaceutical interventions and combating present and future outbreaks.

Funder

General Secretariat for Research and Technology

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Infectious Diseases,Cell Biology,Microbiology (medical),Genetics,General Immunology and Microbiology,Ecology,Physiology

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/spectrum.02134-22

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