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Category: Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data (GISAID)

Posted on December 11, 2021

Criticised if delayed in sharing data, punished for diligently posting data

After the first infection by a new variant — it has 32 mutations in the spike protein alone — was confirmed from a specimen collected on November 9, Botswana and…

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Posted on February 6, 2021

ACTREC’s automated tool makes SARS-CoV-2 genome mutation analysis easy

The IPD tool has been already designed to perform analysis of diverse genomic datasets, which came handy while analysing diverse data sets of SARS-CoV-2 genome that have been uploaded to the…

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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 7, 2016June 11, 2016

Zika: When research goes off the rails

The World Health Organisation (WHO) may have designated the Zika virus and its suspected complications in newborns as a public health emergency of international concern, but this has not concerned…

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Posted on January 18, 2016June 11, 2016

Mutations make H1N1 virulent, spread easily

The 2014 Indian H1N1 strain has undergone “important haemagglutinin (HA) mutations” that make it more easily transmissible and virulent in humans, notes a study published on March 11 in the…

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Posted on January 12, 2016April 12, 2017

Editorial: Silent spread of H7N9

With the continued spread of influenza A(H7N9) virus to 127 people in China and a concomitant increase in the number of deaths (26), the outbreak has confirmed what the World…

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