Lately, many articles are telling about the spread of infection by mutated D614G strain. We've also performed some bioinformatics studies to find the same results.
Article Emergence of a Pathogenic Strain of COVID-19
We've found that places with higher d614g strain tend to have a higher infection rate and higher fatality ratio. Also, we've shown the gradual increase of d614G in abundance with time.
I wanted to discuss the wet lab verifications of this.
Also, a further question can be raised that is, what is the probability of such mutations in future?
There can be more informative discussions about this from this cell paper:
https://virological.org/t/spike-protein-d614g-variant-paper-published-in-cell-today/526
I believe it will be a good point to know what the scientific community thinks about D614G.
Dear, Tathagata Dey ,,
Really, I have no informations about D614G strain. So I deeply want to learn more about it.
Thanks and regards.
my dear doctor,
in my humble opinion
what we know about this virus is like a drop in the sea.
what we have mostly is expectations, the scientists said its only one wave then it will fade , then they noticed its mutating to more aggressive form and still mutating.
there are different races of humans and some are already infected with other viruses like HIV, HBV , HSV , H1N1, and many others .... so do we know for sure it will not combined with it?? or it will not be affected the race of humans??
what we know for sure that we had never seen such intelligent and aggressive creature
we loosing efforts and money in developing vaccines witch will not work in my opinion and if it dose work miraculously !! will it be available for every one in the world??
thank you sir , stay healthy and be safe
Dear, Tathagata Dey ,,
Really, I have no informations about D614G strain. So I deeply want to learn more about it.
Thanks and regards.
Yousef Albalawi Sir, hope everything is fine at your end. What you said, is the harsh truth of today's world. The world has seen many more RNA-viruses, but none like this before truly. Although the reproductive number was previously less compared to other RNA viruses, mutation these days, are even more rapid. Hope, mankind fights it well.
Yehya A. Salih Hope you're doing well sir. This is a mutated strain of SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein in which the Aspartic Acid in position 614 is changed to Glycine. Studies show that this makes the virus more infectious and pathogenic. I am attaching herewith our recent published work on D614G strain.
Article Emergence of a Pathogenic Strain of COVID-19
And also, you may find this article a good read too. Research Tracking changes in SARS-CoV-2 Spike: evidence that D614G in...
Stay safe and Healthy.
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