Global SARS-CoV-2 Transmission and Emergence of the S Protein D614G Mutation (IMAGE)

CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

Global SARS-CoV-2 Transmission and Emergence of the S Protein D614G Mutation

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The D614G mutation in the viral S protein represents an early branching point that is dominant in the European infection clusters and parts of North America. Sequence analysis suggests further transmission of this strain to North America and subsequent reintroduction events from the USA to many European countries. Most of the Austrian patient samples show the same S D614G mutation shared by many other European strains. The Illustration 2 was generated by data-driven vector-graphics extracted from Nextstrain.org, enabled by data from GISAID.org, world map-data from Openstreetmap.org and 3D elements rendered with Octane renderer for Unity3D.

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Bobby Rajesh Malhotra / CeMM (Creative Commons license: CC BY-NC)

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