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. 2021 Apr;82(4):e8-e10.
doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2021.01.007. Epub 2021 Jan 17.

Introduction of the South African SARS-CoV-2 variant 501Y.V2 into the UK

Julian W Tang  1 , Oliver T R Toovey  2 , Kirsty N Harvey  2 , David D S Hui  3
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Introduction of the South African SARS-CoV-2 variant 501Y.V2 into the UK

Julian W Tang et al. J Infect. 2021 Apr.
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A maximum likelihood tree of South African variant B.1.351/501Y.V2 (downloaded 7 January 2021, from GISAID: https://www.gisaid.org/). Sequences were aligned using MAFFT: https://mafft.cbrc.jp/alignment/software/ and manually edited using BioEdit v7.2.5. Phylogenetic tree construction was performed using FastTree v2.1.11 and displayed using FigTree v1.4.4. We gratefully acknowledge and thank all the teams and laboratories that have deposited these sequences into GISAID to make this analysis possible. Red and blue brackets denote 501Y.V2 viruses detected in England or Scotland, respectively, together with any closely related sequences from elsewhere. The larger, bold red bracket indicates a larger cluster of possibly linked viruses that are closely related to viruses from France. Note that this tree is intended to be illustrative and not comprehensive.
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