{"id":5772,"date":"2021-03-03T09:36:32","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T17:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5772"},"modified":"2021-03-04T09:52:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T17:52:30","slug":"sequence-analysis-of-20453-sars-cov-2-genomes-from-the-houston-metropolitan-area-identifies-the-emergence-and-widespread-distribution-of-multiple-isolates-of-all-major-variants-of-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/03\/sequence-analysis-of-20453-sars-cov-2-genomes-from-the-houston-metropolitan-area-identifies-the-emergence-and-widespread-distribution-of-multiple-isolates-of-all-major-variants-of-concern\/","title":{"rendered":"Sequence Analysis of 20453 SARS-CoV-2 Genomes from the Houston Metropolitan Area Identifies the Emergence and Widespread Distribution of Multiple Isolates of All Major Variants of Concern"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><i>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed]<\/i> Genomic sequencing of 20,453 virus specimens in Houston, Texas identified the presence of all variants of interest or concern (n=23 of B.1.1.7, n=2 of B.1.351, n=4 of P.1, and n=143 of B.1.429 and n=19 of B.1.427). None of the affected patients were from a common household or reported recent international travel, suggesting that infections were independently acquired locally or during domestic travel.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>Long et al. (Mar 2, 2021). Sequence Analysis of 20453 SARS-CoV-2 Genomes from the Houston Metropolitan Area Identifies the Emergence and Widespread Distribution of Multiple Isolates of All Major Variants of Concern. Pre-print downloaded Mar 3 from <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.02.26.21252227\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.02.26.21252227<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] Genomic sequencing of 20,453 virus specimens in Houston, Texas identified the presence of all variants of interest or concern (n=23 of B.1.1.7, n=2 of B.1.351, n=4 of P.1, and n=143 of B.1.429 and n=19 of B.1.427). None of the affected patients were from a common household or reported recent international travel, suggesting&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/03\/sequence-analysis-of-20453-sars-cov-2-genomes-from-the-houston-metropolitan-area-identifies-the-emergence-and-widespread-distribution-of-multiple-isolates-of-all-major-variants-of-concern\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[40,159],"topic":[24],"class_list":["post-5772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-geographic-spread","tag-variants","topic-geographic-spread"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5773,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5772\/revisions\/5773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5772"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}