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Volume 26, Number 12—December 2020
Research

Flight-Associated Transmission of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Corroborated by Whole-Genome Sequencing

Hollie Speake, Anastasia Phillips, Tracie Chong, Chisha Sikazwe, Avram Levy, Jurissa Lang, Benjamin Scalley, David J. Speers, David W. Smith, Paul Effler, and Suzanne P. McEvoyComments to Author 
Author affiliations: University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia (H. Speake); Metropolitan Communicable Disease Control, Perth, Western Australia, Australia (A. Phillips, T. Chong, B. Scalley, S.P. McEvoy); University of Western Australia, Perth (C. Sikazwe, A. Levy, D.J. Speers, P. Effler); PathWest Laboratory Medicine Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia (C. Sikazwe, A. Levy, D.J. Speers, D.W. Smith, J. Lang); Public Health Emergency Operations Centre, Perth (P. Effler)

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Figure 3

Phylogenetic tree generated in MEGA version 7.0.14 (8) for all SARS-CoV-2 whole-genome sequences with >80% genome coverage. Colors indicate samples from 458 persons with cases linked to cluster on flight from Sydney to Perth, Australia, on March 19, 2020. Scale bar indicates nucleotide substitutions per site.

Figure 3. Phylogenetic tree generated in MEGA version 7.0.14 (8) for all SARS-CoV-2 whole-genome sequences with >80% genome coverage. Colors indicate samples from 458 persons with cases linked to cluster on flight from Sydney to Perth, Australia, on March 19, 2020. Scale bar indicates nucleotide substitutions per site.

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