TY - JOUR AU - Claro, Ingra Morales AU - da Silva Sales, Flavia Cristina AU - Ramundo, Mariana Severo AU - Candido, Darlan AU - Silva, Camila A.M. AU - de Jesus, Jaqueline Goes AU - Manuli, Erika AU - de Oliveira, Cristina Mendes AU - Scarpelli, Luciano AU - Campana, Gustavo AU - Pybus, Oliver AU - Sabino, Ester Cerdeira AU - Faria, Nuno Rodrigues AU - Levi, José Eduardo T1 - Local Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Lineage B.1.1.7, Brazil, December 2020 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2021 VL - 27 IS - 3 SP - 970 SN - 1080-6059 AB - In December 2020, research surveillance detected the B.1.1.7 lineage of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 in São Paulo, Brazil. Rapid genomic sequencing and phylogenetic analysis revealed 2 distinct introductions of the lineage. One patient reported no international travel. There may be more infections with this lineage in Brazil than reported. KW - 2019 novel coronavirus disease KW - coronavirus disease KW - COVID-19 KW - severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 KW - SARS-CoV-2 KW - viruses KW - respiratory infections KW - zoonoses KW - transmission KW - genomic KW - surveillance KW - lineage B.1.1.7 KW - Brazil DO - 10.3201/eid2703.210038 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/27/3/21-0038_article ER - End of Reference