SARS-CoV-2 within-host diversity and transmission.
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Matthew Hall ;
Luca Ferretti ;
Mariateresa de Cesare ;
GeorgeMacIntyre-Cockett;
Amy Trebes ;
Monique Andersson ;
NewtonOtecko;
Emma L Wise ;
Nathan Moore ;
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Jessica Lynch ;
Stephen Kidd ;
NicholasCortes;
Matilde Mori ;
Rebecca Williams ;
Gabrielle Vernet ;
AnitaJustice;
Angie Green ;
Samuel M Nicholls ;
M Azim Ansari ;
Lucie Abeler-Dörner ;
Catrin E Moore ;
Timothy EA Peto ;
David WEyre;
Robert Shaw ;
PeterSimmonds;
DavidBuck;
John A Todd ;
Oxford Virus Sequencing Analysis Group (OVSG);
Thomas R Connor ;
Shirin Ashraf ;
Ana da Silva Filipe ;
James Shepherd ;
Emma C Thomson ;
COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) Consortium;
David Bonsall ;
Christophe Fraser ;
Tanya Golubchik ;
COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) Consortium, Oxford Virus Sequencing Analysis Group (OVSG);
(2021)
SARS-CoV-2 within-host diversity and transmission.
Science (New York, N.Y.), 372 (6539).
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ISSN 0036-8075
DOI: 10.1126/science.abg0821
Extensive global sampling and sequencing of the pandemic virus severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) have enabled researchers to monitor its spread and to identify concerning new variants. Two important determinants of variant spread are how frequently they arise within individuals and how likely they are to be transmitted. To characterize within-host diversity and transmission, we deep-sequenced 1313 clinical samples from the United Kingdom. SARS-CoV-2 infections are characterized by low levels of within-host diversity when viral loads are high and by a narrow bottleneck at transmission. Most variants are either lost or occasionally fixed at the point of transmission, with minimal persistence of shared diversity, patterns that are readily observable on the phylogenetic tree. Our results suggest that transmission-enhancing and/or immune-escape SARS-CoV-2 variants are likely to arise infrequently but could spread rapidly if successfully transmitted.
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