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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Maida, Carmelo Massimo
• Tramuto, Fabio
• Di Naro, Daniela
• Randazzo, Giulia
• Stefanelli, Paola
• Marotta, Claudia
• Reale, Stefano
• Cernigliaro, Achille
• Barone, Teresa
• Cesari, Carlo
• Pulvirenti, Claudio
• Angeloni, Ulrico
• Di Martino, Angela
• Rezza, Giovanni
• Vitale, Francesco
• Mazzucco, Walter
• Agnone, Annalisa
• Alba, Davide
• Amodio, Emanuele
• Asciutto, Rosario
• Candura, Ranieri
• Cascio, Francesco
• Casuccio, Alessandra
• Costantino, Claudio
• D'Agostino, Nadia
• D'Amato, Stefania
• Di Quarto, Laura
• Fruscione, Santo
• Graziano, Giorgio
• La Milia, Daniele
• Lucchese, Mariano
• Mangano, Giulia
• Messina, Maristella
• Migliorisi, Carmelo
• Mistretta, Giuseppa
• Palmeri, Giulia
• Pecoraro, Laura
• Restivo, Vincenzo
• Rizzo, Antonina Patrizia
• Savatteri, Alessandra
• Scibetta, Silvia
• Scondotto, Salvatore
• Sparaco, Antonino
• Spoto, Vittorio
• Stabile, Domenico
• Tagliavia, Angela Mothia
• Vitale, Fabrizio
• Zappia, Mario
• Zichichi, Salvatore

Titel

First detection of SARS-CoV-2 A.23.1 sub-lineage in migrants arriving to Italy via the Mediterranean Sea and public health implications

Ist Teil von

• Travel medicine and infectious disease, 2021-09, Vol.43, p.102142-102142, Article 102142

Ort / Verlag

Netherlands: Elsevier Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

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MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• [...]under the supervision of the Italian Ministry of Health, a dedicated SARS-CoV-2 surveillance system has been implemented in Sicily and its smaller islands, representing the main entrance to Europe, through the Mediterranean Sea, from Northern African borders for migrant refugees or asylum-seekers [3], who are considered vulnerable populations to be targeted by specific prevention and control programs [4]. Genetic variations have been very useful to classify the virus in different lineages and to perform phylodynamic analyses to understand viral evolution and epidemiology, and identify patterns of spread. [...]we used CoV-GLUE resource to generate phylogenetic placement of the A.23.1 strains, to annotate the sequences and check the prevalence of the deletions among worldwide sequences. The evolution of highly transmissible strains of SARS-CoV-2 and its global spread underlines the need to improve the surveillance and rapid detection of newly emerging variants, particularly focusing on those areas at higher migration rates from low-resources countries, where limited testing capacity and poor reporting systems are of Public Health concern [6]. If you have nothing to declare in any of these categories then this should be stated.Competing interests The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in the revised version of the paper.Funding source This study was funded by the Center for Diseases Prevention and Control of the Italian Ministry of Health within the project entitled “Sorveglianza epidemiologica e controllo del COVID-19 in aree urbane metropolitane e per il contenimento della circolazione del SARS-CoV-2 nella popolazione immigrata in Italia”.Declaration of competing interest A conflicting interest exists when professional judgement concerning a primary interest (such as patient's welfare or the validity of research)