SARS-CoV-2 in transit: characterization of SARS-CoV-2 genomes from Venezuelan migrants in Colombia

The socioeconomic, political and healthcare crisis of the last two decades has resulted in violence, poverty and the massive migration of Venezuelans to neighboring countries (Daniels 2020), driving further economic and social instability and catalyzing the overflow of infectious diseases such as malaria, dengue, tuberculosis, HIV, and most recently, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) (Grillet et al. 2019; Rodr íguez-Morales et al.

Source: International Journal of Infectious Diseases - July 29, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Luz H. Pati ño, Nathalia Ballesteros, Marina Muñoz, Sergio Castañeda, Carolina Hernández, Sergio Gomez, Carolina Florez, Angelica Rico, Liseth Pardo, Carlos E. Hernandez-Pereira, Lourdes Delgado-Noguera, Maria E. Grillet, Matthew M. Hernandez, Zenab K Source Type: research