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. 2021 Sep-Oct:43:102142.
doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2021.102142. Epub 2021 Jul 16.

First detection of SARS-CoV-2 A.23.1 sub-lineage in migrants arriving to Italy via the Mediterranean Sea and public health implications

Carmelo Massimo Maida  1 , Fabio Tramuto  2 , Daniela Di Naro  3 , Giulia Randazzo  3 , Paola Stefanelli  4 , Claudia Marotta  5 , Stefano Reale  6 , Achille Cernigliaro  7 , Teresa Barone  8 , Carlo Cesari  9 , Claudio Pulvirenti  10 , Ulrico Angeloni  5 , Angela Di Martino  4 , Giovanni Rezza  5 , Francesco Vitale  1 , Walter Mazzucco  1 ; SAMI-Surv Collaboration  11 ; Davide Alba  12 , Emanuele Amodio  13 , Rosario Asciutto  14 , Ranieri Candura  15 , Francesco Cascio  16 , Alessandra Casuccio  17 , Claudio Costantino  18 , Nadia D'Agostino  19 , Stefania D'Amato  20 , Laura Di Quarto  21 , Santo Fruscione  22 , Giorgio Graziano  23 , Daniele La Milia  24 , Mariano Lucchese  25 , Giulia Mangano  26 , Maristella Messina  27 , Carmelo Migliorisi  28 , Giuseppa Mistretta  29 , Giulia Palmeri  30 , Laura Pecoraro  31 , Vincenzo Restivo  32 , Antonina Patrizia Rizzo  33 , Alessandra Savatteri  34 , Silvia Scibetta  35 , Salvatore Scondotto  36 , Antonino Sparaco  37 , Vittorio Spoto  38 , Domenico Stabile  39 , Angela Mothia Tagliavia  40 , Fabrizio Vitale  41 , Mario Zappia  42 , Salvatore Zichichi  43
Collaborators, Affiliations

First detection of SARS-CoV-2 A.23.1 sub-lineage in migrants arriving to Italy via the Mediterranean Sea and public health implications

Carmelo Massimo Maida et al. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2021 Sep-Oct.
No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; Mediterranean sea; Migrants; Molecular surveillance; NGS; Phylogeny analysis; Public health; SARS-CoV-2; Vaccination programs.

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Neighbor-Joining phylogenetic analysis of A.23.1 lineage SARS-CoV-2 genome sequences. The two complete genomes characterized in this study are indicated in red. The reference sequence Wuhan-Hu-1 (MN908947.3) was used to root the tree. The branch length is drawn to the scale of number of nucleotide substitutions per site, indicated in lower left. (For interpretation of the references to colour in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the Web version of this article.)
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