Eurosurv. Vaccine breakthrough infection and onward transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Beta (B.1.351) variant, Bavaria, Germany, February to March 2021

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• Inge Kroidl[SUP]1,2[/SUP] , Ingo Mecklenburg[SUP]3[/SUP] , Peter Schneiderat[SUP]3[/SUP] , Katharina Müller[SUP]2,4[/SUP] , Philipp Girl[SUP]2,4[/SUP] , Roman Wölfel[SUP]2,4[/SUP] , Andreas Sing[SUP]5[/SUP] , Alexandra Dangel[SUP]5[/SUP] , Andreas Wieser[SUP]1,2[/SUP] , Michael Hoelscher[SUP]1,2[/SUP]

A breakthrough infection occurred in a fully Comirnaty (BNT162b2) vaccinated healthcare worker with high levels of neutralising antibodies with the SARS-CoV-2 B.1.351 (Beta) variant in February 2021. The infection was subsequently transmitted to their unvaccinated spouse. Sequencing revealed an identical virus in both spouses, with a match of all nine single nucleotide polymorphisms typical for B.1.351. To the best of our knowledge, no transmission of any variant of SARS-CoV-2 from a fully vaccinated person has been described before.

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