{"id":7297,"date":"2020-06-03T13:04:24","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T20:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7297"},"modified":"2021-03-24T13:05:06","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T20:05:06","slug":"early-transmission-of-sars-cov-2-in-south-africa-an-epidemiological-and-phylogenetic-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/03\/early-transmission-of-sars-cov-2-in-south-africa-an-epidemiological-and-phylogenetic-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in South Africa:\u00a0An Epidemiological and Phylogenetic Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">[pre-print, not peer reviewed]<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Using genomic surveillance and phylogenetic methods,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Giandhari\u00a0et al.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0found evidence of multiple international introductions and high rates of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in Western and Eastern Cape regions of South Africa. They also found evidence for\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">a\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">localized outbreak in a hospital in Durban, potentially explaining the initially high death rates reported in\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">th<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">at<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0province. This study highlights the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">potential\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">role for\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">genomic<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s in the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">surveillance of SARS-CoV-2<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0transmission<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Giandhari\u00a0et al. (May 30, 2020). Early Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in South Africa<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">:<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0An Epidemiological and Phylogenetic Report.\u00a0Preprint\u00a0downloaded\u00a0June\u00a03 from\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.05.29.20116376\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.05.29.20116376<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[pre-print, not peer reviewed]\u00a0Using genomic surveillance and phylogenetic methods,\u00a0Giandhari\u00a0et al.\u00a0found evidence of multiple international introductions and high rates of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in Western and Eastern Cape regions of South Africa. They also found evidence for\u00a0a\u00a0localized outbreak in a hospital in Durban, potentially explaining the initially high death rates reported in\u00a0that\u00a0province. This study highlights the\u00a0potential\u00a0role for\u00a0genomics&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/03\/early-transmission-of-sars-cov-2-in-south-africa-an-epidemiological-and-phylogenetic-report\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-7297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7297","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7298,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7297\/revisions\/7298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7297"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}