Use este identificador para citar o ir al link de este elemento: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/61649
Tipo: Artigo de Periódico
Título: Monitoring the Establishment of VOC Gamma in Minas Gerais, Brazil: A Retrospective Epidemiological and Genomic Surveillance Study
Autor(es): Hugo José Alves
Walyson Coelho Costa
Jaqueline Silva de Oliveira
Eva Lídia Arcoverde Medeiros
Carolina Senra Alves de Souza
Juliana Wilke Saliba
André Luiz Menezes
Eneida Santos de Oliveira
Talita Emile Ribeiro Adelino
Natalia Rocha Guimaraes
Adriana Aparecida Ribeiro
João Locke Ferreira de Araújo
Rennan Garcias Moreira
Danielle Alves Gomes Zauli
Joice do Prado Silva
Frederico Scott Varella Malta
Alessandro Clayton de Souza Ferreira
Ana Valesca Fernandes Gilson Silva
Poliane Alfenas-zerbini
Flavia Oliveira de Souza
Adriano de Paula Sabino
Laura do Amaral Xavier
Paula Luize Camargos Fonseca
Natália Virtude Carobin
Alex Fiorini de Carvalho
Karine Lima Lourenço
Santuza Maria Ribeiro Teixeira
Ana Paula Salles Moura Fernandes
Flavio Guimarães da Fonseca
Jônatas Santos Abrahão
Felipe Campos de Melo Iani
Rodrigo Araújo Lima Rodrigues
Renan Pedra de Souza
Filipe Romero Rebello Moreira
Renato Santana Aguiar
Diego Menezes Bonfim
Daniel Costa Queiroz
Lucyene Miguita
Rafael Marques de Souza
Victor Emmanuel Viana Geddes
Resumen: Since its first identification in Brazil, the variant of concern (VOC) Gamma has been associated with increased infection and transmission rates, hospitalizations, and deaths. Minas Gerais (MG), the second-largest populated Brazilian state with more than 20 million inhabitants, observed a peak of cases and deaths in March–April 2021. We conducted a surveillance study in 1240 COVID-19-positive samples from 305 municipalities distributed across MG’s 28 Regional Health Units (RHU) between 1 March to 27 April 2021. The most common variant was the VOC Gamma (71.2%), followed by the variant of interest (VOI) zeta (12.4%) and VOC alpha (9.6%). Although the predominance of Gamma was found in most of the RHUs, clusters of Zeta and Alpha variants were observed. One Alpha-clustered RHU has a history of high human mobility from countries with Alpha predominance. Other less frequent lineages, such as P.4, P.5, and P.7, were also identified. With our genomic characterization approach, we estimated the introduction of Gamma on 7 January 2021, at RHU Belo Horizonte. Differences in mortality between the Zeta, Gamma and Alpha variants were not observed. We reinforce the importance of vaccination programs to prevent severe cases and deaths during transmission peaks.
Asunto: SARS-CoV-2
COVID-19
Genomas
Idioma: eng
País: Brasil
Editor: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Sigla da Institución: UFMG
Departamento: FAR - DEPARTAMENTO DE FARMÁCIA SOCIAL
FARMACIA - FACULDADE DE FARMACIA
Tipo de acceso: Acesso Aberto
Identificador DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/v14122747
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/61649
Fecha del documento: 9-dic-2022
metadata.dc.url.externa: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/14/12/2747
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: Viruses
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