Abstract
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.
MeSH terms
- Aged
- Betacoronavirus / genetics*
- Brazil / epidemiology
- COVID-19
- Communicable Diseases, Imported / epidemiology
- Communicable Diseases, Imported / transmission*
- Communicable Diseases, Imported / virology
- Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology
- Coronavirus Infections / transmission*
- Humans
- Middle Aged
- Pandemics*
- Phylogeny
- Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology
- Pneumonia, Viral / transmission*
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
- SARS-CoV-2