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ArticleTropical medicine and health2021

Emergence of highly infectious SARS-CoV-2 variants in Bangladesh: the need for systematic genetic surveillance as a public health strategy.

Mohammad Mehedi Hasan, Ian Christopher N Rocha, Kimberly G Ramos, Trisha Denise D Cedeño, Ana Carla Dos Santos Costa, Christos Tsagkaris, Md Masum Billah, Shoaib Ahmad, Mohammad Yasir Essar

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Article in Tropical medicine and health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors.

Mohammad Mehedi HasanDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Life Science, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Tangail, Bangladesh.
Ian Christopher N RochaSchool of Medicine, Centro Escolar University, Manila, Philippines.
Kimberly G RamosSchool of Medicine, Centro Escolar University, Manila, Philippines.
Trisha Denise D CedeñoSchool of Medicine, Centro Escolar University, Manila, Philippines.
Ana Carla Dos Santos CostaFaculty of Medicine, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
Christos TsagkarisFaculty of Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece.
Md Masum BillahDepartment of Pharmacy, Faculty of Life Science, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Tangail, Bangladesh.
Shoaib AhmadPunjab Medical College, Faisalabad, Pakistan.
Mohammad Yasir EssarMedical Research Center, Kateb University, 1001, Kabul, Afghanistan. yasir.essar@gmail.com.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bangladesh, a low-middle-income country in South Asia is facing one of its worst public health emergencies due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The increase in the number of cases from the disease, since the second half of March 2021, can potentially cause the health system overload, and has, as one of the main reasons, the non-compliance with measures of social distance and the emergence of the variants of concern in the country. This increase in the contagion curve can also provide a favorable environment for the occurrence of more mutations in the structure and genome of the virus. Therefore, there is an urge to carry out genomic surveillance programs in order to identify, monitor and characterize these variants, and understand whether the vaccines currently used are effective against them.

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BangladeshGenetic surveillancePublic healthSARS-CoV-2 variants

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PMCPMC8408563

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