Delta + Omikeron? 25 people have been infected!

According to the Israeli "Jerusalem Post" quoted by Cyprus media reports on the 9th, researchers at the University of Cyprus are suspected of finding a recombinant new crown strain of Delta and Omicron in the local area, which is more genetically closer to the Delta strain, but has a large number of unique variants of the Olmikron strain. For this reason, the strain was named "Deltacron" by the researchers.

A team led by RayondyWorth, director of the Laboratory of Biotechnology and Molecular Virology at the University of Cyprus, a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee on COVID-19 of the President of the Republic of Cyprus and director of the Laboratory of Biotechnology and Molecular Virology at the University of Cyprus, has been tracking the mutation of the new coronavirus in the country, and after sequencing 1377 samples, the team found that 25 people were infected with the new strain, and although their genetic sequence was close to that of the Delta strain, there were 10 unique variants of the Omiljung strain. At the same time, as many as 14 of the 25 infected people were hospitalized.

Cos Reggies said: "There are currently co-infections with the Ami kerong and Delta strains, and we have found a variant of the recombination of the two. "The analysis shows that this variant is more common in inpatients than in hospitalized patients." The team has uploaded the strain genome to the GISAID international database and will continue to see if the variant is more pathogenic or contagious, or whether it becomes endemic.

However, the discovery of the strain has raised some controversy in addition to widespread concern. Thomas Peacock, a postdoctoral researcher in infectious diseases at Imperial College London in the United Kingdom, said in a "Tweet" that there are some indications that the so-called "DeltaKron" may be the result of contaminated gene sequencing.

Studies have shown that recombination is very common in coronaviruses and has played an important role in the evolution of the coronavirus. In July 2020, researchers at Duke University, Los Alamos National Laboratory and other institutions in the United States published an article in the journal Nature that the new crown virus is likely to gain the ability to infect the human body through recombination; in August 2021, researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States published a preprint paper saying that recombination has greatly accelerated the emergence of new variants of the new coronavirus.

In conclusion, it is important to monitor the genome of the new crown virus for evidence of recombination, both to gain insight into the virus and to provide early warning when the recombination of "super strains" emerges.

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