Corrigendum: Identification and analysis of SARS-CoV-2 alpha variants in the largest Taiwan COVID-19 outbreak in 2021

Front Med (Lausanne). 2023 May 17:10:1211944. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2023.1211944. eCollection 2023.

Li-Teh Liu¹, Jih-Jin Tsai^{2

3

4}, Ko Chang^#^{2

4

5}, Chun-Hong Chen^#^{6

7}, Ping-Chang Lin², Ching-Yi Tsai², Yan-Yi Tsai², Miao-Chen Hsu², Wan-Long Chuang^{4

8}, Jer-Ming Chang^{4

9

10}, Shang-Jyh Hwang^{4

9}, Inn-Wen Chong^{11

12}

¹ Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, College of Medical Technology, Chung Hwa University of Medical Technology, Tainan, Taiwan.
² Tropical Medicine Center, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
³ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
⁴ School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
⁵ Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Municipal Siaogang Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
⁶ National Mosquito-Borne Diseases Control Research Center, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Taiwan.
⁷ National Institute of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Taiwan.
⁸ Division of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
⁹ Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
¹⁰ Department of Medical Research, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
¹¹ Department of Internal Medicine and Graduate Institute of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
¹² Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2022.869818.].

Keywords: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; alpha/B.1.1.7; clade replacements; next-generation sequencing; phylogenetic analysis; qRT-PCR; virus culture.