Importation and early local transmission of COVID-19 in Brazil, 2020

• Published in: Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
• Main Authors: Jaqueline Goes de Jesus, Claudio Sacchi, Darlan da Silva Candido, Ingra Morales Claro, Flávia Cristina Silva Sales, Erika Regina Manuli, Daniela Bernardes Borges da Silva, Terezinha Maria de Paiva, Margarete Aparecida Benega Pinho, Katia Correa de Oliveira Santos, Sarah Catherine Hill, Renato Santana Aguiar, Filipe Romero, Fabiana Cristina Pereira dos Santos, Claudia Regina Gonçalves, Maria do Carmo Timenetsky, Joshua Quick, Julio Henrique Rosa Croda, Wanderson de Oliveira, Andrew Rambaut, Oliver G. Pybus, Nicholas J. Loman, Ester Cerdeira Sabino, Nuno Rodrigues Faria
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
• Subjects: public health surveillance; covid-19; sars-cov-2; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; Arctic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/s1678-9946202062030; https://doaj.org/article/6115a51b0e78449e863cc3795406234e

ABSTRACT We conducted the genome sequencing and analysis of the first confirmed COVID-19 infections in Brazil. Rapid sequencing coupled with phylogenetic analyses in the context of travel history corroborate multiple independent importations from Italy and local spread during the initial stage of COVID-19 transmission in Brazil.