Coinfections and superinfections associated with COVID-19 in Colombia: A narrative review

D Dueñas, J Daza, Y Liscano - Medicina, 2023 - mdpi.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has had significant impacts on healthcare systems around the
world, including in Latin America. In Colombia, there have been over 23,000 confirmed …

Evolutionary dynamics and dissemination pattern of the SARS-CoV-2 lineage B. 1.1. 33 during the early pandemic phase in Brazil

PC Resende, E Delatorre, T Gräf, D Mir… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
A previous study demonstrates that most of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-
2 (SARS-CoV-2) Brazilian strains fell in three local clades that were introduced from Europe …

Genomic epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 variants during the first two years of the pandemic in Colombia

C Jimenez-Silva, R Rivero, J Douglas… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Background The emergence of highly transmissible SARS-CoV-2 variants has led to surges
in cases and the need for global genomic surveillance. While some variants rapidly spread …

Molecular epidemiology surveillance of SARS-CoV-2: mutations and genetic diversity one year after emerging

A Flores-Alanis, A Cruz-Rangel, F Rodríguez-Gómez… - Pathogens, 2021 - mdpi.com
In December 2019, the first cases of the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) were identified in the city of Wuhan, China. Since then, it has …

Nucleocapsid single point-mutation associated with drop-out on RT-PCR assay for SARS-CoV-2 detection

F de Mello Malta, D Amgarten, AR Marra… - BMC Infectious …, 2023 - Springer
Background Since its beginning, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has been a challenge for clinical and molecular diagnostics …

Phylogenomics reveals multiple introductions and early spread of SARS‐CoV‐2 into Peru

E Juscamayta‐López, D Carhuaricra… - Journal of Medical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Peru has become one of the countries with the highest mortality rates from the current
coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic caused by the severe acute respiratory …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluación comparativa de la vigilancia en salud pública de COVID-19 en Colombia: primer semestre

A Hurtado-Ortiz, J Moreno-Montoya… - Biomédica, 2020 - scielo.org.co
Introducción. La vigilancia en salud pública y las decisiones sanitarias recomendadas son
fundamentales para el manejo adecuado de la pandemia de SARS-CoV-2. Objetivo. Hacer …

[HTML][HTML] Characterizing SARS-CoV-2 genome diversity circulating in South American countries: Signatures of potentially emergent lineages?

M Muñoz, LH Patiño, N Ballesteros… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Objectives To evaluate the genomic diversity and geographic distribution of SARS-CoV-2
lineages in South America. Methods SARS-CoV-2 lineages from a public dataset of 5583 …

SARS-CoV-2 spread across the Colombian-Venezuelan border

A Paniz-Mondolfi, M Muñoz, C Florez, S Gomez… - Infection, Genetics and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Introduction Venezuela and Colombia both adopted measures of containment early
in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, Venezuela's ongoing humanitarian crisis …

Genomic epidemiological models describe pathogen evolution across fitness valleys

P Cárdenas, V Corredor, M Santos-Vega - Science advances, 2022 - science.org
Genomics is fundamentally changing epidemiological research. However, systematically
exploring hypotheses in pathogen evolution requires new modeling tools. Models …