September 23, 2020

Empirical Transmission Advantage of the D614G Mutant Strain of SARS-CoV-2

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Topic: Transmission

Keywords (Tags): transmission

• [Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] The SARS-CoV-2 lineage carrying the amino acid change D614G has become the dominant variant in the global COVID-19 pandemic. A study using epidemiological data and phylogenetic data (35,377 sequences) estimated that the G614 mutant of SARS-CoV-2 is 31% more transmissible than the D614 wildtype.

Leung et al. (Sept 23, 2020). Empirical Transmission Advantage of the D614G Mutant Strain of SARS-CoV-2. Pre-print downloaded Sept 23 from https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.09.22.20199810