Here is an example that how the environment surveillance with NGS could improve our understanding on viral epidemiology in the community. https://t.co/peCd45YOhc
@phl43 @EvolveDotZoo @laduplessis@pathogenomenick@arambaut @jnaraghwani @nmrfaria@MOUGK All test information from hospitals, local CDCs and third detection parties are sent to Guangdong provincial CDC each day. We are responsible for adding up and analyzing these data. Only no. of positive cases but not diagnosis details is released to the public. Thx.
We just released 6 full genome sequences of nCoVs in GISAID. Five of six seqs are from two family infection cluster with the secondary cases highly likely caused by H2H transmission.
Only 3 and 1 unique snps found in these cluster infection strains when comparing to other public available seqs. This suggests the nCoVs may already possess H2H transmission capability when it was firstly identified. Our paper will post online soon.