SARS-CoV-2 from COVID-19 Patients in the Republic of Moldova: Whole-Genome Sequencing Results
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MOROZOV, Alexandr, NIRCA, Vadim, VICTOROVA, Anna, POPPERT, Sven, FRICKMANN, Hagen, YAMADA, Chiaki, KACENA, Melissa Ann, RATA, Sergiu, MOVILĂ, Alexandru. SARS-CoV-2 from COVID-19 Patients in the Republic of Moldova: Whole-Genome Sequencing Results. In: Viruses, 2022, nr. 10(14), pp. 1-12. ISSN 1999-4915. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/v14102310
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Numărul 10(14) / 2022 / ISSN 1999-4915

SARS-CoV-2 from COVID-19 Patients in the Republic of Moldova: Whole-Genome Sequencing Results

DOI:https://doi.org/10.3390/v14102310

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Morozov Alexandr1, Nirca Vadim, Victorova Anna2, Poppert Sven3, Frickmann Hagen4, Yamada Chiaki, Kacena Melissa Ann5, Rata Sergiu2, Movilă Alexandru
 
1 Institute of Zoology,
2 Imunotehnomed Ltd, Chisinau,
3 Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg,
4 Bundeswehr Hospital Hamburg,
5 Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis
 
 
Disponibil în IBN: 5 noiembrie 2022


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Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, no viral genome sequences of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) have been documented from the Republic of Moldova, a developing country geographically located in Eastern Europe between Romania and Ukraine. Here, we report the analysis of 96 SARS-CoV-2 sequences from Delta and Omicron variants of the SARS-CoV-2 cases in the Republic of Moldova obtained between August and November 2021 and between January and May 2022. Comparison to global viral sequences showed that among the Delta variant of the SARS-CoV-2, AY.122 (n = 25), followed by AY.4.2.3 (n = 6), AY.4 (n = 5), AY.43 (n = 3), AY.98.1 (n = 3), B.1.617.2 (n = 1), AY.125 (n = 1), AY.54 (n = 1), AY.9 (n = 1), AY.126 (n = 1), and AY.33 (n = 1) were the most frequently found lineages. Furthermore, 10 lineages of the Omicron variant, namely, BA.2 (n = 14), followed by BA.2.9 (n = 10), BA.1 (n = 5), BA.1.1 (n = 5), BA.1.18 (n = 4), BA.1.15.1 (n = 3), BA.1.17.2 (n = 2), BA.1.17 (n = 2), BA.1.15 (n = 1), and BA.2.1 (n = 1) were detected. In addition, we also identified the impact of the military crisis between Russia and Ukraine, when the COVID-19 epidemiological rules collapsed, on the distribution of Delta and Omicron variants in the Republic of Moldova. Additional studies are warranted to characterize further the impact of the war between Russia and Ukraine on the genomic epidemiology of the SARS-CoV-2 in the Republic of Moldova and Eastern Europe.

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COVID-19, Moldova, molecular epidemiology, SARS-CoV-2, viral strains