The arrival and spread of SARS‐CoV‐2 in Colombia

J. Ramírez, C. Flórez, M. Muñoz, C. Hernández, Adriana Castillo, S. Gomez, A. Rico, L. Pardo, E. C. Barros, S. Castañeda, Nathalia Ballesteros, David Martínez, Laura Vega, J. Jaimes, Lissa Cruz-Saavedra, Giovanny Herrera, L. H. Patiño, Aníbal A. Teherán, A. Gonzalez-Reiche, Matthew M Hernandez, E. Sordillo, V. Simon, H. van Bakel, A. Paniz-Mondolfi

Journal of medical virology, 2020

We performed phylogenomic analysis of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus‐2 from 88 infected individuals across different regions of Colombia. Eleven different lineages were detected, suggesting multiple introduction events. Pangolin lineages B.1 and B.1.5 were the most frequent, with B.1 being associated with prior travel to high‐risk areas.

Cited by 11 publications.

Field of study: Biology

10.1002/jmv.26393