Complete Genome Sequence of a 2019 Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) Strain Isolated in Nepal

Ranjit Sah^#¹, Alfonso J Rodriguez-Morales^#^{2

3}, Runa Jha⁴, Daniel K W Chu⁵, Haogao Gu⁵, Malik Peiris⁵, Anup Bastola⁶, Bibek Kumar Lal⁷, Hemant Chanda Ojha⁷, Ali A Rabaan⁸, Lysien I Zambrano⁹, Anthony Costello¹⁰, Kouichi Morita¹¹, Basu Dev Pandey⁶, Leo L M Poon⁵

Affiliations

¹ National Public Health Laboratory, Kathmandu, Nepal ranjitsah@iom.edu.np.
² Public Health and Infection Research Group, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Tecnologica de Pereira, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia.
³ Grupo de Investigación Biomedicina, Faculty of Medicine, Fundación Universitaria Autónoma de las Américas, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia.
⁴ National Public Health Laboratory, Kathmandu, Nepal.
⁵ School of Public Health, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.
⁶ Sukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal.
⁷ Epidemiology and Disease Control Division, Government of Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal.
⁸ Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
⁹ Departments of Physiological and Morphological Sciences, School of Medical Sciences, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras (UNAH), Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
¹⁰ Global Health and Sustainable Development, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
¹¹ Department of Virology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan.

^# Contributed equally.

PMID: 32165386
PMCID: PMC7067954
DOI: 10.1128/MRA.00169-20

Complete Genome Sequence of a 2019 Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) Strain Isolated in Nepal

Ranjit Sah et al. Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020.

. 2020 Mar 12;9(11):e00169-20.

doi: 10.1128/MRA.00169-20.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ National Public Health Laboratory, Kathmandu, Nepal ranjitsah@iom.edu.np.
² Public Health and Infection Research Group, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Tecnologica de Pereira, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia.
³ Grupo de Investigación Biomedicina, Faculty of Medicine, Fundación Universitaria Autónoma de las Américas, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia.
⁴ National Public Health Laboratory, Kathmandu, Nepal.
⁵ School of Public Health, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.
⁶ Sukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal.
⁷ Epidemiology and Disease Control Division, Government of Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal.
⁸ Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
⁹ Departments of Physiological and Morphological Sciences, School of Medical Sciences, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras (UNAH), Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
¹⁰ Global Health and Sustainable Development, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
¹¹ Department of Virology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan.

^# Contributed equally.

PMID: 32165386
PMCID: PMC7067954
DOI: 10.1128/MRA.00169-20

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Expression of Concern for Sah et al., "Complete Genome Sequence of a 2019 Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) Strain Isolated in Nepal".
American Society for Microbiology. American Society for Microbiology. Microbiol Resour Announc. 2021 Jan 21;10(3):e01466-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01466-20. Microbiol Resour Announc. 2021. PMID: 33479004 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

Abstract

A complete genome sequence was obtained for a severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) strain isolated from an oropharyngeal swab specimen of a Nepalese patient with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), who had returned to Nepal after traveling to Wuhan, China.

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