Isolation and genetic characterization of SARS-CoV-2 from Indian patients in a single family without H/O travel abroad.
Virus Genes
; 57(3): 245-249, 2021 Jun.
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in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1121392
ABSTRACT
In view of the rapidly progressing COVID-19 pandemic, our aim was to isolate and characterize SARS-CoV-2 from Indian patients. SARS-CoV-2 was isolated from nasopharyngeal swabs collected from the two members of a family without any history of (H/O) travel abroad. Both the virus isolates (8003 and 8004) showed CPE on day 3 post-inoculation, viral antigens by immunofluorescence assay and produced distinct, clear and uniform plaques. Infectious virus titers were 5 × 106 and 4 × 106 Pfu/ml by plaque assay and 107.5 and 107 by CPE-based TCID50/ml, respectively. Phylogenetic analysis grouped our isolates with the Italian strains. On comparison with Wuhan strain, 3 unique mutations were identified in nsp3 (A1812D), exonuclease (P1821S) of Orf1ab and spike protein (Q677H) regions, respectively. Both the viruses grouped with Italian strains of SARS-CoV-2 suggesting possible source being the virus imported from Italy. These fully characterized virus isolates will be useful in developing neutralization/virological assays for the evaluation of vaccines/antivirals.
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International databases
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
SARS-CoV-2
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Experimental Studies
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Prognostic study
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Randomized controlled trials
Topics:
Vaccines
Limits:
Animals
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Humans
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
Language:
English
Journal:
Virus Genes
Journal subject:
Molecular Biology
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Virology
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
S11262-021-01826-z
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