Monitoring approaches for health-care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic

Julia Bielicki (1, 2) , Xavier Duval (3, 4) , Nina Gobat (5) , Herman Goossens (6) , Marion Koopmans (7) , Evelina Tacconelli (8) , Sylvie van der Werf (9, 10)

1 St George's, University of London
2 University Children's Hospital [Basel, Switzerland]]
3 AP-HP - Hôpital Bichat - Claude Bernard [Paris]
4 IAME (UMR_S_1137 / U1137) - Infection, Anti-microbiens, Modélisation, Evolution
5 University of Oxford
6 VAXINFECTIO - Vaccine & Infectious Disease Institute [Antwerp, Belgium]
7 Erasmus MC - Erasmus University Medical Center [Rotterdam]
8 UNIVR - Università degli studi di Verona = University of Verona
9 GMV-ARN (UMR_3569 / U-Pasteur_2) - Génétique Moléculaire des Virus à ARN - Molecular Genetics of RNA Viruses
10 CNR - laboratoire coordonnateur - Centre National de Référence des virus des infections respiratoires (dont la grippe) - National Reference Center Virus Influenzae [Paris]

We show the distribution of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) genetic clades over time and between countries and outline potential genomic surveillance objectives. We applied three genomic nomenclature systems to all sequence data from the World Health Organization European Region available until 10 July 2020. We highlight the importance of real-time sequencing and data dissemination in a pandemic situation, compare the nomenclatures and lay a foundation for future European genomic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2.

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]

Julia Bielicki, Xavier Duval, Nina Gobat, Herman Goossens, Marion Koopmans, et al.. Monitoring approaches for health-care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2020, 20 (10), pp.e261-e267. ⟨10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30458-8⟩. ⟨pasteur-04098458⟩