SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Interest and Concern naming scheme conducive for global discourse

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作者
Konings, Frank [1 ]
Perkins, Mark D. [1 ]
Kuhn, Jens H. [2 ]
Pallen, Mark J. [3 ]
Alm, Erik J. [4 ]
Archer, Brett N. [1 ]
Barakat, Amal [1 ]
Bedford, Trevor [5 ]
Bhiman, Jinal N. [6 ,7 ]
Caly, Leon [8 ]
Carter, Lisa L. [1 ]
Cullinane, Anne [9 ]
de Oliveira, Tulio [10 ]
Druce, Julian [8 ]
El Masry, Ihab [11 ]
Evans, Roger [1 ]
Gao, George F. [12 ]
Gorbalenya, Alexander E. [13 ,14 ]
Hamblion, Esther [1 ]
Herring, Belinda L. [1 ]
Hodcroft, Emma [15 ]
Holmes, Edward C. [16 ]
Kakkar, Manish [1 ]
Khare, Shagun [1 ]
Koopmans, Marion P. G. [17 ]
Korber, Bette [18 ]
Leite, Juliana [1 ]
MacCannell, Duncan [19 ]
Marklewitz, Marco [1 ]
Maurer-Stroh, Sebastian [20 ,21 ]
Rico, Jairo Andres Mendez [1 ]
Munster, Vincent J. [22 ]
Neher, Richard [23 ]
Munnink, Bas Oude [17 ]
Pavlin, Boris I. [1 ]
Peiris, Malik [24 ]
Poon, Leo [24 ]
Pybus, Oliver [25 ]
Rambaut, Andrew [26 ]
Resende, Paola [27 ]
Subissi, Lorenzo [1 ]
Thiel, Volker [15 ,28 ]
Tong, Suxiang [19 ]
van der Werf, Sylvie [29 ]
von Gottberg, Anne [6 ,7 ]
Ziebuhr, John [30 ]
Van Kerkhove, Maria D. [1 ]
机构
[1] WHO, Geneva, Switzerland
[2] NIAID, Integrated Res Facil Ft Detrick, Div Clin Res, NIH, Frederick, MD USA
[3] Univ East Anglia, Quadram Inst Biosci, Norwich, Norfolk, England
[4] European Ctr Dis Prevent & Control, Stockholm, Sweden
[5] Fred Hutchinson Canc Res Ctr, 1124 Columbia St, Seattle, WA 98104 USA
[6] Natl Inst Communicable Dis, Johannesburg, South Africa
[7] Univ Witwatersrand, Fac Hlth Sci, Sch Pathol, Johannesburg, South Africa
[8] Victorian Infect Dis Reference Lab VIDRL, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
[9] Univ Limerick, Fac Sci & Engn, Limerick, Ireland
[10] Univ KwaZulu Natal, Durban, South Africa
[11] Food & Agr Org United Nations FAO, Emergency Ctr Transboundary Anim Dis, Cairo, Egypt
[12] Chinese Ctr Dis Control & Prevent, Beijing, Peoples R China
[13] Leiden Univ, Med Ctr, Leiden, Netherlands
[14] Lomonosov Moscow State Univ, Fac Bioengn & Bioinformat, Moscow, Russia
[15] Univ Bern, Bern, Switzerland
[16] Univ Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
[17] Erasmus Univ, Rotterdam, Netherlands
[18] Los Alamos Natl Lab, Theoret Biol & Biophys, Los Alamos, NM USA
[19] US Ctr Dis Control & Prevent, Atlanta, GA USA
[20] Global Initiat Sharing All Influenza Data GISAID, Munich, Germany
[21] Agcy Sci Technol & Res, Bioinformat Inst, Singapore, Singapore
[22] NIAID, Virus Ecol Unit, Rockville, MA USA
[23] Univ Basel, Biozentrum, Switzerland Swiss Inst Bioinformat, Basel, Switzerland
[24] Univ Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Peoples R China
[25] Univ Oxford, Oxford, England
[26] Univ Edinburgh, Ashworth Labs, Inst Evolutionary Biol, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
[27] Fiocruz MS, Inst Oswaldo Cruz, Lab Resp Viruses & Measles LVRS, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
[28] Inst Virol & Immunol, Mittelhausern, Switzerland
[29] Inst Pasteur, Paris, France
[30] Justus Liebig Univ Giessen, Inst Med Virol, Giessen, Germany
基金
英国生物技术与生命科学研究理事会;
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D O I
10.1038/s41564-021-00932-w
中图分类号
Q93 [微生物学];
学科分类号
071005 ; 100705 ;
摘要
A group convened and led by the Virus Evolution Working Group of the World Health Organization reports on its deliberations and announces a naming scheme that will enable clear communication about SARS-CoV-2 variants of interest and concern.
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页码:821 / 823
页数:3
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