Evidence for SARS-CoV-2 Delta and Omicron co-infections and recombination

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BACKGROUND: Between November 2021 and February 2022, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Delta and Omicron variants co-circulated in the United States, allowing for co-infections and possible recombination events.

METHODS: We sequenced 29,719 positive samples during this period and analyzed the presence and fraction of reads supporting mutations specific to either the Delta or Omicron variant.

FINDINGS: We identified 18 co-infections, one of which displayed evidence of a low Delta-Omicron recombinant viral population. We also identified two independent cases of infection by a Delta-Omicron recombinant virus, where 100% of the viral RNA came from one clonal recombinant. In the three cases, the 5' end of the viral genome was from the Delta genome and the 3' end from Omicron, including the majority of the spike protein gene, though the breakpoints were different.

CONCLUSIONS: Delta-Omicron recombinant viruses were rare, and there is currently no evidence that Delta-Omicron recombinant viruses are more transmissible between hosts compared with the circulating Omicron lineages.

FUNDING: This research was supported by the NIH RADx initiative and by the Centers for Disease Control Contract 75D30121C12730 (Helix).

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:3

Enthalten in:

Med (New York, N.Y.) - 3(2022), 12 vom: 09. Dez., Seite 848-859.e4

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Bolze, Alexandre [VerfasserIn]
Basler, Tracy [VerfasserIn]
White, Simon [VerfasserIn]
Dei Rossi, Andrew [VerfasserIn]
Wyman, Dana [VerfasserIn]
Dai, Hang [VerfasserIn]
Roychoudhury, Pavitra [VerfasserIn]
Greninger, Alexander L [VerfasserIn]
Hayashibara, Kathleen [VerfasserIn]
Beatty, Mark [VerfasserIn]
Shah, Seema [VerfasserIn]
Stous, Sarah [VerfasserIn]
McCrone, John T [VerfasserIn]
Kil, Eric [VerfasserIn]
Cassens, Tyler [VerfasserIn]
Tsan, Kevin [VerfasserIn]
Nguyen, Jason [VerfasserIn]
Ramirez, Jimmy [VerfasserIn]
Carter, Scotty [VerfasserIn]
Cirulli, Elizabeth T [VerfasserIn]
Schiabor Barrett, Kelly [VerfasserIn]
Washington, Nicole L [VerfasserIn]
Belda-Ferre, Pedro [VerfasserIn]
Jacobs, Sharoni [VerfasserIn]
Sandoval, Efren [VerfasserIn]
Becker, David [VerfasserIn]
Lu, James T [VerfasserIn]
Isaksson, Magnus [VerfasserIn]
Lee, William [VerfasserIn]
Luo, Shishi [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Alternative allele fraction
BA.1
Breakpoint
Co-infection
Delta
Journal Article
Omicron
RNA virus
Recombination
SARS-CoV-2
Sequencing
Translation to patients

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Date Completed 16.12.2022

Date Revised 17.04.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.medj.2022.10.002

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NLM348465157