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. 2022 Jan;94(1):29-31.
doi: 10.1002/jmv.27326. Epub 2021 Sep 18.

Emergence of SARS-CoV-2 lineage B.1.617.2 in the local community of Hong Kong

Alan K L Tsang  1 , Gannon C K Mak  1 , Patricia K L Leung  1 , Peter K C Cheng  1 , Peter C W Yip  1 , Edman T K Lam  1 , Ken H L Ng  1 , Rickjason C W Chan  1
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Emergence of SARS-CoV-2 lineage B.1.617.2 in the local community of Hong Kong

Alan K L Tsang et al. J Med Virol. 2022 Jan.
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Phylogenetic analysis of 77 genomes of SARS‐CoV‐2 B.1.617.2 detected in Hong Kong from January 2021 to June 2021. Cases highlighted in blue were the two local and three epidemiologically linked imported cases. The Wuhan‐Hu‐1 strain was included as a reference sequence (GenBank accession no. MN908947.3). SARS‐CoV‐2, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
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