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Basic Characteristics of Mutations
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Mutation Site
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V445H |
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Mutation Site Sentence
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Interestingly, the first time that a S:L452W-virus lacking S:V445H was detected in a clinical sample was the 2nd of January 2024 while the lineage BA.2.X was constantly detected in wastewater samples since the 25th of September 2023, suggesting that the S:L452W-positve/S:V445H-negative lineage was actually present in the population for a long time before it was detected on any clinical sample. |
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Mutation Level
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Amino acid level |
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Mutation Type
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Nonsynonymous substitution |
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Gene/Protein/Region
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S |
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Standardized Encoding Gene
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S
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Genotype/Subtype
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BA.2.86 |
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Viral Reference
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-
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Functional Impact and Mechanisms
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Disease
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COVID-19
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Immune
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- |
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Target Gene
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-
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Clinical and Epidemiological Correlations
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Clinical Information
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- |
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Treatment
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- |
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Location
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Norway |
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Literature Information
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PMID
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39881253
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Title
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Unsupervised detection of novel SARS-CoV-2 mutations and lineages in wastewater samples using long-read sequencing
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Author
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Garcia I,Riis RK,Moen LV,Rohringer A,Madslien EH,Bragstad K
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Journal
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BMC genomics
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Journal Info
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2025 Jan 29;26(1):87
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Abstract
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The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the importance of virus surveillance in public health and wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) has emerged as a non-invasive, cost-effective method for monitoring SARS-CoV-2 and its variants at the community level. Unfortunately, current variant surveillance methods depend heavily on updated genomic databases with data derived from clinical samples, which can become less sensitive and representative as clinical testing and sequencing efforts decline.In this paper, we introduce HERCULES (High-throughput Epidemiological Reconstruction and Clustering for Uncovering Lineages from Environmental SARS-CoV-2), an unsupervised method that uses long-read sequencing of a single 1 Kb fragment of the Spike gene. HERCULES identifies and quantifies mutations and lineages without requiring database-guided deconvolution, enhancing the detection of novel variants.We evaluated HERCULES on Norwegian wastewater samples collected from July 2022 to October 2023 as part of a national pilot on WBE of SARS-CoV-2. Strong correlations were observed between wastewater and clinical sample data in terms of prevalence of mutations and lineages. Furthermore, we found that SARS-CoV-2 trends in wastewater samples were identified one week earlier than in clinical data.Our results demonstrate HERCULES' capability to identify new lineages before their detection in clinical samples, providing early warnings of potential outbreaks. The methodology described in this paper is easily adaptable to other pathogens, offering a versatile tool for environmental surveillance of new emerging pathogens.
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Sequence Data
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-
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