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. 2021 May;82(5):e23-e24.
doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2021.01.025. Epub 2021 Feb 3.

Introduction of Brazilian SARS-CoV-2 484K.V2 related variants into the UK

Oliver T R Toovey  1 , Kirsty N Harvey  1 , Paul W Bird  1 , Julian Wei-Tze Wei-Tze Tang  2
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Introduction of Brazilian SARS-CoV-2 484K.V2 related variants into the UK

Oliver T R Toovey et al. J Infect. 2021 May.
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Fig. 1
A maximum likelihood tree of the Brazilian B.1.1.28 lineage demonstrating sequences imported to the UK. The Wuhan SARS-CoV-2 reference sequence is used as the root. Sequences for the UK (VOC202012.01) (pink) and South African (501Y.V2) (green) variants are also shown for comparison. The 28-AM-II/P.1 variants (red) are shown with the 484 K.V2 variants from England (blue) and from other countries (purple). Please see main text for additional details. Full genome SARS-CoV-2 sequences were downloaded on 19 January 2021 from GISAID (https://www.gisaid .org/), 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, with Shimodaira-Hasegawa-like local branch supports, 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 (see Supplementary Acknowledgements file attached). Note that this phylogenetic tree is only intended to be illustrative and not comprehensive.
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