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. 2023 Mar 1;43(2):211-213.
doi: 10.3343/alm.2023.43.2.211. Epub 2022 Oct 25.

Rapid Emergence of the Omicron Variant of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 in Korea

Ae Kyung Park  1 , Il-Hwan Kim  1 , Chae Young Lee  1 , Jeong-Ah Kim  1 , Hyeokjin Lee  1 , Heui Man Kim  1 , Nam-Joo Lee  1 , SangHee Woo  1 , Jaehee Lee  1 , JeeEun Rhee  1 , Cheon-Kwon Yoo  1 , Eun-Jin Kim  1
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Rapid Emergence of the Omicron Variant of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 in Korea

Ae Kyung Park et al. Ann Lab Med. .
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Figures

Fig. 1
Fig. 1
Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 variants in Korea. (A) Distribution of the Delta and Omicron variants of SARS-CoV-2 in Korea from November 15, 2021 to February 3, 2022. The number of daily reported cases is presented as a grey line. (B) Cumulative cases of four variants of concerns in Korea indexed by days. The Gamma variant has not been isolated from domestic cases in Korea. Abbreviation: SARS-CoV-2, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2.
Fig. 2
Fig. 2
Phylogenetic analysis of SARS-CoV-2 sequences. In total, 858 sequences, including 286 sequences from isolates from Korea, were used to construct the tree. All sequences were aligned to the Wuhan-Hu-1 reference sequence using Geneious Prime software (https://www.geneious.com/) and then manually trimmed to equal lengths. A maximum-likelihood phylogenetic tree was reconstructed using FastTree under the GRT+γ nucleotide substitution model, and the phylogenetic tree was visualized using iTOL (https://itol.embl.de/). Abbreviation: SARS-CoV-2, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2.
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