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SUBMITTER: Komissarov AB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7844267 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Komissarov Andrey B AB Safina Ksenia R KR Garushyants Sofya K SK Fadeev Artem V AV Sergeeva Mariia V MV Ivanova Anna A AA Danilenko Daria M DM Lioznov Dmitry D Shneider Olga V OV Shvyrev Nikita N Spirin Vadim V Glyzin Dmitry D Shchur Vladimir V Bazykin Georgii A GA
Nature communications 20210128 1
The ongoing pandemic of SARS-CoV-2 presents novel challenges and opportunities for the use of phylogenetics to understand and control its spread. Here, we analyze the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 in Russia in March and April 2020. Combining phylogeographic analysis with travel history data, we estimate that the sampled viral diversity has originated from at least 67 closely timed introductions into Russia, mostly in late February to early March. All but one of these introductions were not from China, ...[more]