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. 2022 May 28:47:100990.
doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2022.100990. eCollection 2022 Apr-May.

Heterogeneity of the Omicron variant in Senegal

Cyrille Kouligueul Diédhiou  1 , Abdou Padane  1   2 , Khadim Gueye  1 , Samba Ndiour  1 , Aminata Mboup  1 , Moustapha Mbow  1 , Cheikh Ibrahima Lo  2 , Nafissatou Leye  1 , Aissatou Sow Ndoye  1 , Anna Julienne Selbé Ndiaye  1 , Ndéye Diabou Diagne  1 , Seyni Ndiaye  1 , Yacine Amet Dia  1 , Gora Lo  1 , Djibril Wade  1 , Papa Alassane Diaw  1 , Marièma Sarr  1 , Mamadou Beye  1 , Badara Cissé  1 , Cheikh Sokhna  2   3 , Makhtar Camara  1 , Ambroise Ahouidi  1 , Ndéye Coumba Touré Kane  1 , Souleymane Mboup  1
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Heterogeneity of the Omicron variant in Senegal

Cyrille Kouligueul Diédhiou et al. New Microbes New Infect. .

Abstract

•Omicron variant continues to progress in Senegal with the appearance of new contaminations.•IRESSEF detected the first positive case of the Omicron variant on Friday, December 3, 2021.•Since this date, the number of Omicron variant infections has increased over the weeks.•Molecular surveillance of the Omicron variant allowed us to identify a strong variation of this variant in our country.

Keywords: COVID-19; Omicron variant; SARS-CoV-2; genomics; lineages.

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A. Evolution of confirmed cases over time according to the WHO data and the different lineages of variant isolated at IRESSEF; B. Evolution of confirmed cases over time according to the WHO data and the different lineages of Omicron variant isolated at IRESSEF from the first detection of Omicron variant to last lineage of this variant and C. Phylogenetic information of the different lineage of different variants from Senegal isolated at IRESSEF (Phylogeny reconstruction was performed using the nextstrain/ncov tool (https://github.com/nextstrain/ncov) and then visualized with Auspice (https://docs.nextstrain.org/projects/auspice/en/stable/).
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