Emergence of a novel SARS-CoV-2 Pango lineage B.1.1.526 in West Bengal, India

• Main Authors: Rakesh Sarkar (Author), Ritubrita Saha (Author), Pratik Mallick (Author), Ranjana Sharma (Author), Amandeep Kaur (Author), Shanta Dutta (Author), Mamta Chawla-Sarkar (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Since its inception in late 2019, SARS-CoV-2 has been evolving continuously by procuring mutations, leading to emergence of numerous variants, causing second wave of pandemic in many countries including India in 2021. To control this pandemic continuous mutational surveillance and genomi...