{"id":9944,"date":"2021-05-21T11:16:52","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T18:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9944"},"modified":"2021-05-24T11:17:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T18:17:39","slug":"emergence-and-spread-of-the-potential-variant-of-interest-voi-b-1-1-519-predominantly-present-in-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/21\/emergence-and-spread-of-the-potential-variant-of-interest-voi-b-1-1-519-predominantly-present-in-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergence and Spread of the Potential Variant of Interest (VOI) B.1.1.519 Predominantly Present in Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed]<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Investigators described the emergence and spread of a novel SARS-CoV-2 variant of interest (B.1.1.519) in Mexico with mutations T478L, P681H, and T732A in the spike protein. Out of 2,692 SARS-CoV-2 samples analyzed for genomic sequence between March 1, 2020 and March 21, 2021, 37.8% were B.1.1.519. The variant was not detected prior to October 2020, but by February 2021, it comprised 73.6% of samples analyzed and was present in samples from all 24 Mexican states. The authors note that there is no evidence to-date of an association with increased transmission, virulence, reinfection rates, or changes in vaccine effectiveness, but urge continued genomic surveillance to assess the possible impact of this and future variants.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rodriguez-Maldonado et al. (May 20, 2021). Emergence and Spread of the Potential Variant of Interest (VOI) B.1.1.519 Predominantly Present in Mexico. Pre-print downloaded May 21 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.05.18.21255620\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.05.18.21255620<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] Investigators described the emergence and spread of a novel SARS-CoV-2 variant of interest (B.1.1.519) in Mexico with mutations T478L, P681H, and T732A in the spike protein. Out of 2,692 SARS-CoV-2 samples analyzed for genomic sequence between March 1, 2020 and March 21, 2021, 37.8% were B.1.1.519. The variant was not detected prior&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/21\/emergence-and-spread-of-the-potential-variant-of-interest-voi-b-1-1-519-predominantly-present-in-mexico\/\">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":[40,159],"topic":[24],"class_list":["post-9944","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\/9944","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=9944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9945,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9944\/revisions\/9945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9944"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}