Amplicon-based detection and sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 in nasopharyngeal swabs from patients with COVID-19 and identification of deletions in the viral genome that encode proteins involved in interferon antagonism

Author(s):

Shona C. Moore, Rebekah Penrice-Randal, Muhannad Alruwaili, Nadine Randle, Stuart Armstrong, Catherine Hartley, Sam Haldenby, Xiaofeng Dong, Abdulrahman Alrezaihi, Mai Almsaud, Eleanor Bentley, Jordan Clark, Isabel García-Dorival, Paul Gilmore, Ximeng Han, Benjamin Jones, Lisa Luu, Parul Sharma, Ghada Shawli, Yani Sun, Qin Zhao, Steven T. Pullan, Daniel P. Carter, Kevin Bewley, Jake Dunning, En Min Zhou, Tom Solomon, Michael Beadsworth, James Cruise, Derrick W. Crook, David A. Matthews, Andrew D. Davidson, Zana Mahmood, Waleed Aljabr, Julian Druce, Richard Vipond, Lisa Ng, Laurent Renia, Peter J.M. Openshaw, J. Kenneth Baillie, Miles W. Carroll, James Stewart, Alistair Darby, Malcolm Semple, Lance Turtle, Julian A. Hiscox

Details:

Viruses, Volume 12, Issue 10, 2020-10-14, Article number 1164

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Affiliations:

• University of Bristol
• University of Liverpool
• Northwest A&F University
• Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
• Imperial College Faculty of Medicine
• Nuffield Department of Medicine
• Public Health England
• University of Edinburgh, Roslin Institute
• The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
• King Fahad Medical City
• Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
• Liverpool Health Partners
• NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections
• Sulaimani Veterinary Directorate