Tracking SARS-CoV-2 lineage B.1.1.7 dissemination: insights from nationwide spike gene target failure (SGTF) and spike gene late detection (SGTL) data, Portugal, week 49 2020 to week 3 2021

We show that the SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7 lineage is highly disseminated in Portugal, with the odds of B.1.1.7 proportion increasing at an estimated 89% (95% confidence interval: 83-95%) per week until week 3 2021. RT-PCR spike gene target late detection (SGTL) can constitute a useful surrogate to track B...

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Autor principal: Borges, Vítor (author)
Outros Autores: Sousa, Carlos (author), Menezes, Luís (author), Gonçalves, António Maia (author), Picão, Miguel (author), Almeida, José Pedro (author), Vieita, Margarida (author), Santos, Rafael (author), Silva, Ana Rita (author), Costa, Mariana (author), Carneiro, Luís (author), Casaca, Pedro (author), Pinto-Leite, Pedro (author), Peralta-Santos, André (author), Isidro, Joana (author), Duarte, Sílvia (author), Vieira, Luís (author), Guiomar, Raquel (author), Silva, Susana (author), Nunes, Baltazar (author), Gomes, João P. (author)
Formato: article
Idioma:eng
Publicado em: 2022
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Texto completo:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.18/8056
País:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.insa.pt:10400.18/8056
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Resumo:We show that the SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7 lineage is highly disseminated in Portugal, with the odds of B.1.1.7 proportion increasing at an estimated 89% (95% confidence interval: 83-95%) per week until week 3 2021. RT-PCR spike gene target late detection (SGTL) can constitute a useful surrogate to track B.1.1.7 spread, besides the spike gene target failure (SGTF) proxy. SGTL/SGTF samples were associated with statistically significant higher viral loads, but not with substantial shift in age distribution compared to non-SGTF/SGTL cases.