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Category: Genome sequencing

Posted on August 24, 2020August 29, 2020

A case of coronavirus reinfection in Hong Kong confirmed by genome sequencing

Using genome sequencing, researchers at the University of Hong Kong have found a rare instance of reinfection with novel coronavirus for the second time, four-and-a-half months after the first infection.…

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Posted on April 8, 2020April 10, 2020

CCMB, IGIB start sequencing novel coronavirus genome

With CSIR labs now permitted to test samples of novel coronavirus, Hyderabad-based CCMB and Delhi-based IGIB have started sequencing the genome. CCMB has already sequenced the genome of five isolates.…

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Posted on March 11, 2020March 17, 2020

Soon all 52 labs to confirm COVID-19 cases, but what about sequencing?

Finally, by March 13, to avoid delay, all 52 labs will be able to confirm novel coronavirus cases without sending samples to NIV Pune for confirmation. Similarly, it’s time India…

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Posted on March 7, 2020March 17, 2020

SARS-CoV-2: Finally, India shares genome sequence data with GISAID

A day after I reported that India has not shared genome sequence data of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) with GISAID, NIV shared two sequences on March 5. India has finally…

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Posted on March 4, 2020March 17, 2020

India yet to share genome sequence data of novel coronavirus even as 23 countries have done so

Even as 23 countries, including Nepal, Vietnam and Cambodia, have shared genome sequence data of the novel coronavirus, India has not. Till date, 159 sequence data of the virus have…

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Posted on February 29, 2020

Shanghai lab, the first to share coronavirus genome sequence, shut down

A Shanghai-based lab which was the first to sequence the whole genome of the novel coronavirus and publicly share the sequence data was shut down for “rectification”, a day after…

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Posted on January 14, 2020January 14, 2020

Explained: A new coronavirus emerges in China

Between December 8, 2019 and January 2, 2020, 41 people in Wuhan City, Hubei Province of China were infected with a novel coronavirus. One person has died and seven patients…

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Posted on January 12, 2016April 12, 2017

Editorial: The next contagion

The influenza A(H7N9) virus, a novel bird flu strain that emerged in China, has infected nine people and already killed three. Unlike the H5N1 virus that is widely endemic in…

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