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Editor, Senior Moderator
Emerg Infect Dis
. 2022 Dec 1;29(1).
doi: 10.3201/eid2901.221293. Online ahead of print.
Early Warning Surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variants, United Kingdom, November 2021-September 2022
Sarah Foulkes, Edward J M Monk, Dominic Sparkes, Nipunadi Hettiarachchi, Iain D Milligan, Katie Munro, Andrew Taylor-Kerr, Naomi Platt, Anna Howells, Jerry Ye Aung Kyaw, Enemona Adaji, Eileen Gallagher, Jameel Khawam, Edgar Wellington, Lesley Price, David Crossman, Chris Norman, Elen de Lacy, Lisa Cromey, Diane Corrigan, Angie Lackenby, Paola Barbero, Busayo Elegunde, Maria Zambon, Meera A Chand, Colin S Brown, Jasmin Islam, Ana Atti, Susan Hopkins, Victoria J Hall, Michelle J Cole, SIREN Study Group3
Abstract
Since June 2020, the SARS-CoV-2 Immunity and Reinfection Evaluation (SIREN) study has conducted routine PCR testing in UK healthcare workers and sequenced PCR-positive samples. SIREN detected increases in infections and reinfections during Omicron subvariant waves contemporaneous with national surveillance. SIREN's sentinel surveillance methods can be used for variant surveillance.
Keywords: BA.1; BA.2; BA.4; BA.5; COVID-19; Omicron variant; SARS; SARS-CoV-2; SIREN study; United Kingdom; coronavirus; coronavirus disease; respiratory infections; severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; viruses; zoonoses.
. 2022 Dec 1;29(1).
doi: 10.3201/eid2901.221293. Online ahead of print.
Early Warning Surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variants, United Kingdom, November 2021-September 2022
Sarah Foulkes, Edward J M Monk, Dominic Sparkes, Nipunadi Hettiarachchi, Iain D Milligan, Katie Munro, Andrew Taylor-Kerr, Naomi Platt, Anna Howells, Jerry Ye Aung Kyaw, Enemona Adaji, Eileen Gallagher, Jameel Khawam, Edgar Wellington, Lesley Price, David Crossman, Chris Norman, Elen de Lacy, Lisa Cromey, Diane Corrigan, Angie Lackenby, Paola Barbero, Busayo Elegunde, Maria Zambon, Meera A Chand, Colin S Brown, Jasmin Islam, Ana Atti, Susan Hopkins, Victoria J Hall, Michelle J Cole, SIREN Study Group3
- PMID: 36454718
- DOI: 10.3201/eid2901.221293
Abstract
Since June 2020, the SARS-CoV-2 Immunity and Reinfection Evaluation (SIREN) study has conducted routine PCR testing in UK healthcare workers and sequenced PCR-positive samples. SIREN detected increases in infections and reinfections during Omicron subvariant waves contemporaneous with national surveillance. SIREN's sentinel surveillance methods can be used for variant surveillance.
Keywords: BA.1; BA.2; BA.4; BA.5; COVID-19; Omicron variant; SARS; SARS-CoV-2; SIREN study; United Kingdom; coronavirus; coronavirus disease; respiratory infections; severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; viruses; zoonoses.