Open AccessComment on “Genomic epidemiology of superspreading events in Austria reveals mutational dynamics and transmission properties of SARS-CoV-2”
Author(s) -
Michael A. Martin,
Katia Koelle
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
science translational medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.819
H-Index - 216
eISSN - 1946-6242
pISSN - 1946-6234
DOI - 10.1126/scitranslmed.abh1803
Subject(s) - covid-19 , transmission (telecommunications) , biology , sars virus , virology , computational biology , evolutionary biology , genetics , medicine , computer science , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , disease , telecommunications , pathology
A reanalysis of SARS-CoV-2 deep sequencing data from donor-recipient pairs indicates that transmission bottlenecks are very narrow (one to three virions).
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