Genome Sequence of a SARS-CoV-2 VUI 202012/01 Strain Identified from a Patient Returning from London, England, to the Apulia Region of Italy

Daniela Loconsole; Anna Sallustio; Marisa Accogli; Francesca Centrone; Loredana Capozzi; Laura Del Sambro; Antonio Parisi; Maria Chironna

doi:10.1128/MRA.01487-20

Genome Sequence of a SARS-CoV-2 VUI 202012/01 Strain Identified from a Patient Returning from London, England, to the Apulia Region of Italy

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2021 Jan 28;10(4):e01487-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01487-20.

Authors

Daniela Loconsole¹, Anna Sallustio², Marisa Accogli¹, Francesca Centrone¹, Loredana Capozzi³, Laura Del Sambro³, Antonio Parisi³, Maria Chironna⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology-Hygiene Section, University of Bari, Bari, Italy.
² Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Consorziale Policlinico, Bari, Italy.
³ Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Puglia e della Basilicata, Foggia, Italy.
⁴ Department of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology-Hygiene Section, University of Bari, Bari, Italy maria.chironna@uniba.it.

Abstract

The coding-complete sequence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was obtained from a sample from a 25-year-old female returning to the Apulia region of Italy from England. The characterized strain showed all of the spike protein mutations defining SARS-CoV-2 VUI 202012/01, as well as other mutations in the spike protein and in other genomic regions.