F. Gámbaro, S. Behillil, Artem Baidaliuk, F. Donati, M. Albert, Andreea Alexandru, Maud Vanpeene, M. Bizard, Angela Brisebarre, Marion Barbet, F. Derrar, S. van der Werf, V. Enouf, E. Simon-Lorière
Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin, 2020
Following SARS-CoV-2 emergence in China, a specific surveillance was implemented in France. Phylogenetic analysis of sequences retrieved through this surveillance suggests that detected initial introductions, involving non-clade G viruses, did not seed local transmission. Nevertheless, identification of clade G variants subsequently circulating in the country, with the earliest from a patient who neither travelled to risk areas nor had contact with travellers, suggests that SARS-CoV-2 might have been present before the first recorded local cases.
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Field of study: Biology