Importation and early local transmission of COVID-19 in Brazil, 2020

• Autor(a) principal: Jesus, Jaqueline Goes de
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Sacchi, Claudio, Candido, Darlan da Silva, Claro, Ingra Morales, Sales, Flávia Cristina Silva, Manuli, Erika Regina, Silva, Daniela Bernardes Borges da, Paiva, Terezinha Maria de, Pinho, Margarete Aparecida Benega, Santos, Katia Correa de Oliveira, Hill, Sarah Catherine, Aguiar, Renato Santana, Romero, Filipe, Santos, Fabiana Cristina Pereira dos, Gonçalves, Claudia Regina, Timenetsky, Maria do Carmo, Quick, Joshua, Croda, Julio Henrique Rosa, Oliveira, Wanderson de, Rambaut, Andrew, Pybus, Oliver G., Loman, Nicholas J., Sabino, Ester Cerdeira, Faria, Nuno Rodrigues
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
• Texto Completo: https://www.revistas.usp.br/rimtsp/article/view/169574
• topic: Public health surveillance; COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2

We conducted the genome sequencing and analysis of the first confirmed COVID-19 infections in Brazil. Rapid sequencing coupled with phylogenetic analyses in the context of travel history corroborate multiple independent importations from Italy and local spread during the initial stage of COVID-19 transmission in Brazil.