Importation and early local transmission of COVID-19 in Brazil, 2020.
Jaqueline Góes de JesusClaudio SacchiDarlan da Silva CandidoIngra Morales ClaroFlávia Cristina Silva SalesErika Regina ManuliDaniela Bernardes Borges da SilvaTerezinha Maria de PaivaMargarete Aparecida Benega PinhoKatia Correa de Oliveira SantosSarah Catherine HillRenato Santana AguiarFilipe RomeroFabiana Cristina Pereira Dos SantosClaudia Regina GonçalvesMaria do Carmo S T TimenetskyJoshua QuickJulio Henrique Rosa CrodaWanderson de OliveiraAndrew RambautOliver George PybusNicholas James LomanEster Cerdeira SabinoNuno Rodrigues FariaPublished in: Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo (2020)
We conducted the genome sequencing and analysis of the first confirmed COVID-19 infections in Brazil. Rapid sequencing coupled with phylogenetic analyses in the context of travel history corroborate multiple independent importations from Italy and local spread during the initial stage of COVID-19 transmission in Brazil.