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EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 27, Issue 6, Pages 1673-1676Publisher
CENTERS DISEASE CONTROL & PREVENTION
DOI: 10.3201/eid2706.210532
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- COVID-19 rapid response grants from GenomeBC [COV-115, COV-033]
- Exceptional Opportunities Fund-COVID-19 award from the Canada Foundation for Innovation
- British Columbia Ministry of Health-Providence Health Care Research Institute COVID-19 Research Priorities Grant
- Public Health Agency of Canada COVID-19 Immunology Task Force COVID-19 Hot Spots Competition Grant [2021-HQ-000120]
- Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research
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In Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, a real-time reverse transcription PCR-based algorithm was used to screen all severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2-positive samples and identify variants of concern. A total of 77 samples with variants were rapidly identified, with majority being B.1.1.7 and 8.1.351 variants.
To screen all severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2-positive samples in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and determine whether they represented variants of concern, we implemented a real-time reverse transcription PCR-based algorithm. We rapidly identified 77 samples with variants: 57 with B.1.1.7, 7 with 8.1.351, and an epidemiologic cluster of 13 with B.1.1.28/P.1.
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