Volume 28, Number 12—December 2022
Synopsis
Probable Aerosol Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 through Floors and Walls of Quarantine Hotel, Taiwan, 2021
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Figure 2. Whole-genome sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 from 3 case patients (indicated with red triangles) who contracted COVID-19 in a quarantine hotel in Taipei City, Taiwan, in December 2021 (GISAID with accession ID EPI_ISL_13535670, 13535983, 13536113). Phylogenetic trees were constructed using IQ-TREE software (http://www.iqtree.org/) by maximum likelihood. The phylogenetic analysis with sequences obtained from the United States (1988 viruses), Japan (79 viruses, blue lines), and China (1 virus, red line) sampled from the same timeframe revealed that sequences of the 3 case patients fell into a subclade close to one from the United States. Scale bar for enlarged tree section indicates substitutions per site.