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Editor, Senior Moderator
Emerg Infect Dis
. 2021 Jul;27(7).
doi: 10.3201/eid2707.210845.
Emergence of SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7 Lineage at Outpatient Testing Site, Berlin, Germany, January-March 2021
Welmoed van Loon, Heike Rössig, Susen Burock, Jörg Hofmann, Julian Bernhard, Elisabeth Linzbach, Domenika Pettenkofer, Christian Schönfeld, Maximilian Gertler, Joachim Seybold, Tobias Kurth, Frank P Mockenhaupt
Abstract
Within 5 weeks in 2021, B.1.1.7 became the dominant severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 lineage at an outpatient testing site in Berlin, Germany. Compared with outpatients with wild-type virus infection, patients with B.1.1.7 had similar cycle threshold values, more frequent sore throat and travel history, and less frequent anosmia/ageusia.
Keywords: B.1.1.7; Berlin; COVID-19; Germany; SARS-CoV-2; coronavirus disease; respiratory infections; severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; viral load; viruses; zoonoses.
. 2021 Jul;27(7).
doi: 10.3201/eid2707.210845.
Emergence of SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7 Lineage at Outpatient Testing Site, Berlin, Germany, January-March 2021
Welmoed van Loon, Heike Rössig, Susen Burock, Jörg Hofmann, Julian Bernhard, Elisabeth Linzbach, Domenika Pettenkofer, Christian Schönfeld, Maximilian Gertler, Joachim Seybold, Tobias Kurth, Frank P Mockenhaupt
- PMID: 34152970
- DOI: 10.3201/eid2707.210845
Abstract
Within 5 weeks in 2021, B.1.1.7 became the dominant severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 lineage at an outpatient testing site in Berlin, Germany. Compared with outpatients with wild-type virus infection, patients with B.1.1.7 had similar cycle threshold values, more frequent sore throat and travel history, and less frequent anosmia/ageusia.
Keywords: B.1.1.7; Berlin; COVID-19; Germany; SARS-CoV-2; coronavirus disease; respiratory infections; severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; viral load; viruses; zoonoses.