Genome Sequences of Five SARS-CoV-2 Variants from Mumbai, India, Obtained by Nanopore Sequencing

Kayzad Nilgiriwala; Ayan Mandal; Grishma Patel; Tejal Mestry; Smriti Vaswani; Ambreen Shaikh; Kalpana Sriraman; Swapneil Parikh; Shreevatsa Udupa; Nirjhar Chatterjee; Jayanthi Shastri; Nerges Mistry

doi:10.1128/MRA.00231-21

Genome Sequences of Five SARS-CoV-2 Variants from Mumbai, India, Obtained by Nanopore Sequencing

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2021 Apr 15;10(15):e00231-21. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00231-21.

Affiliations

¹ The Foundation for Medical Research, Worli, Mumbai, India.
² Kasturba Hospital, Arya Nagar, Chinchpokli, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
³ The Foundation for Medical Research, Worli, Mumbai, India fmr@fmrindia.org.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

We report here the genome sequences of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants from five coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients in Mumbai, India. Viral genomic RNA was isolated from nasopharyngeal swabs and/or respiratory particles from the masks of the patients. Genomic variant analysis determined 8 to 22 mutations, and the variants belong to lineages previously associated with Indian variants.