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. 2021 Feb 9:12:625607.
doi: 10.3389/fgene.2021.625607. eCollection 2021.

SARS-CoV-2 Early Screening at the Point of Entry: Travelers From Bangladesh to Italy-July 2020

Martina Rueca  1 , Antonino Di Caro  1 , Cesare Ernesto Maria Gruber  1 , Francesco Messina  1 , Emanuela Giombini  1 , Maria Beatrice Valli  1 , Eleonora Lalle  1 , Simone Lanini  1 , Francesco Vairo  1 , Maria Rosaria Capobianchi  1 , Barbara Bartolini  1
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SARS-CoV-2 Early Screening at the Point of Entry: Travelers From Bangladesh to Italy-July 2020

Martina Rueca et al. Front Genet. .

Abstract

We report phylogenetic and mutational analysis by NGS of six SARS-CoV-2 strains from patients flying from Bangladesh to Italy (July 2020). Data suggest that no further circulation of such imported strains occurred in Italy, stating the efficacy of early screening at the point of entry and supporting the importance of molecular epidemiology in monitoring the efficacy of control measures.

Keywords: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; early detection at point of entry; molecular epidemiology; mutations; next generation genome sequencing; phylogenetic analysis.

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The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Maximum likelyhood phylogenetic tree of representative sequences from Italy (in black) and Bangladesh (in gray) available at 5th October 2020. All Nodes with bootstrap values >65% are highlighted. Sequence from this work are marked with *.
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