Public health actions to control new SARS-CoV-2 variants

Recent reports suggest that some SARS-CoV-2 genetic variants, such as B.1.1.7, might be more transmissible and are quickly spreading around the world. As the emergence of more transmissible variants could exacerbate the pandemic, we provide public health guidance for increased surveillance and measu...

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Autores principales: Grubaugh, Nathan D., Hodcroft, Emma B., Fauver, Joseph R., Phelan, Alexandra L., Cevik, Muge
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7846239/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33581746
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2021.01.044
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description Recent reports suggest that some SARS-CoV-2 genetic variants, such as B.1.1.7, might be more transmissible and are quickly spreading around the world. As the emergence of more transmissible variants could exacerbate the pandemic, we provide public health guidance for increased surveillance and measures to reduce community transmission.
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spelling pubmed-78462392021-02-01 Public health actions to control new SARS-CoV-2 variants Grubaugh, Nathan D. Hodcroft, Emma B. Fauver, Joseph R. Phelan, Alexandra L. Cevik, Muge Cell Commentary Recent reports suggest that some SARS-CoV-2 genetic variants, such as B.1.1.7, might be more transmissible and are quickly spreading around the world. As the emergence of more transmissible variants could exacerbate the pandemic, we provide public health guidance for increased surveillance and measures to reduce community transmission. Elsevier Inc. 2021-03-04 2021-01-29 /pmc/articles/PMC7846239/ /pubmed/33581746 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2021.01.044 Text en © 2021 Elsevier Inc. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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