Assessment of Mutations Associated With Genomic Variants of SARS-CoV-2: RT-qPCR as a Rapid and Affordable Tool to Monitoring Known Circulating Variants in Chile, 2021.

RT-qPCR-based surveillance SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern (VOCs) variants of interest variants under monitoring

Journal

Frontiers in medicine
ISSN: 2296-858X
Titre abrégé: Front Med (Lausanne)
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101648047

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
2022
Historique:
received: 21 12 2021
accepted: 02 02 2022
entrez: 14 3 2022
pubmed: 15 3 2022
medline: 15 3 2022
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Since the first report of SARS-CoV-2 infection in humans, the virus has mutated to develop new viral variants with higher infection rates and more resistance to neutralization by antibodies elicited after natural SARS-CoV-2 infection or by vaccines. Therefore, rapid identification of viral variants circulating in the population is crucial for epidemiological assessment and efforts to contain the resurgence of the pandemic. Between January and November 2021, we performed a large variant RT-qPCR-based screening of mutations in the spike protein of 1851 SARS-CoV-2-positive samples derived from outpatients from the UC-Christus Health Network in Chile. In a portion of samples (

Identifiants

pubmed: 35280916
doi: 10.3389/fmed.2022.841073
pmc: PMC8914012
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

841073

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2022 Angulo, Martinez-Valdebenito, Pardo-Roa, Almonacid, Fuentes-Luppichini, Contreras, Maldonado, Le Corre, Melo, Medina and Ferrés.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

The authors declare that this study received funding from BH Chile INC to conduct SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance. The funder was not involved in the study design, collection, analysis, interpretation of data, the writing of this article or the decision to submit it for publication.

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Auteurs

Jenniffer Angulo (J)

Departamento de Enfermedades Infeciosas e Inmmunologia Pediatricas, Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Infectious Disease and Molecular Virology Laboratory, Red Salud UC-Christus, Santiago, Chile.

Constanza Martinez-Valdebenito (C)

Departamento de Enfermedades Infeciosas e Inmmunologia Pediatricas, Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Infectious Disease and Molecular Virology Laboratory, Red Salud UC-Christus, Santiago, Chile.

Catalina Pardo-Roa (C)

Departamento de Enfermedades Infeciosas e Inmmunologia Pediatricas, Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Advanced Interdisciplinary Rehabilitation Register - COVID-19 Working Group, Faculty of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.

Leonardo I Almonacid (LI)

Molecular Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Institute for Biological and Medical Engineering, Schools of Engineering, Medicine and Biological Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.

Eugenia Fuentes-Luppichini (E)

Infectious Disease and Molecular Virology Laboratory, Red Salud UC-Christus, Santiago, Chile.

Ana Maria Contreras (AM)

Infectious Disease and Molecular Virology Laboratory, Red Salud UC-Christus, Santiago, Chile.

Constanza Maldonado (C)

Infectious Disease and Molecular Virology Laboratory, Red Salud UC-Christus, Santiago, Chile.

Nicole Le Corre (N)

Departamento de Enfermedades Infeciosas e Inmmunologia Pediatricas, Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Infectious Disease and Molecular Virology Laboratory, Red Salud UC-Christus, Santiago, Chile.

Francisco Melo (F)

Molecular Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Institute for Biological and Medical Engineering, Schools of Engineering, Medicine and Biological Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.

Rafael A Medina (RA)

Departamento de Enfermedades Infeciosas e Inmmunologia Pediatricas, Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Advanced Interdisciplinary Rehabilitation Register - COVID-19 Working Group, Faculty of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States.

Marcela Ferrés (M)

Departamento de Enfermedades Infeciosas e Inmmunologia Pediatricas, Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Infectious Disease and Molecular Virology Laboratory, Red Salud UC-Christus, Santiago, Chile.

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