Recent Louisiana SARS CoV2 Sequences Are The Italian Lineage

[niman]

LSUHS released 11 SARS CoV2 sequences (at GISAID) from recent Louisiana patients (collection dates between 4/9-4/15).  All 11 were the Italian lineage.  The new sequences increase the public sequences to 14 and all are the Italian lineage.

Edited May 2, 2020 by niman

[niman]

Virus name:	hCoV-19/USA/LA-EVTL011/2020
Accession ID:	EPI_ISL_435044
Type:	betacoronavirus
Passage details/history:	Original
Sample information
Collection date:	2020-04-15
Location:	North America / USA / Louisiana
Host:	Human
Additional location information:	Caddo Parish

[niman]

Virus name:	hCoV-19/USA/LA-EVTL010/2020
Accession ID:	EPI_ISL_435043
Type:	betacoronavirus
Passage details/history:	Original
Sample information
Collection date:	2020-04-15
Location:	North America / USA / Louisiana
Host:	Human
Additional location information:	Caddo Parish

[niman]

Virus name:	hCoV-19/USA/LA-EVTL09/2020
Accession ID:	EPI_ISL_435042
Type:	betacoronavirus
Passage details/history:	Original
Sample information
Collection date:	2020-04-15
Location:	North America / USA / Louisiana
Host:	Human
Additional location information:	East Baton Rouge Parish

[niman]

Virus name:	hCoV-19/USA/LA-EVTL08/2020
Accession ID:	EPI_ISL_435041
Type:	betacoronavirus
Passage details/history:	Original
Sample information
Collection date:	2020-04-15
Location:	North America / USA / Louisiana
Host:	Human
Additional location information:	Caddo Parish

[niman]

Virus name:	hCoV-19/USA/LA-EVTL07/2020
Accession ID:	EPI_ISL_435040
Type:	betacoronavirus
Passage details/history:	Original
Sample information
Collection date:	2020-04-15
Location:	North America / USA / Louisiana
Host:	Human
Additional location information:	Iberville Parish

[niman]

Virus name:	hCoV-19/USA/LA-EVTL06/2020
Accession ID:	EPI_ISL_435039
Type:	betacoronavirus
Passage details/history:	Original
Sample information
Collection date:	2020-04-15
Location:	North America / USA / Louisiana
Host:	Human
Additional location information:	East Baton Rouge Parish

[niman]

Virus name:	hCoV-19/USA/LA-EVTL05/2020
Accession ID:	EPI_ISL_435038
Type:	betacoronavirus
Passage details/history:	Original
Sample information
Collection date:	2020-04-13
Location:	North America / USA / Louisiana
Host:	Human
Additional location information:	Livingston Parish

[niman]

Virus name:	hCoV-19/USA/LA-EVTL04/2020
Accession ID:	EPI_ISL_435037
Type:	betacoronavirus
Passage details/history:	Original
Sample information
Collection date:	2020-04-13
Location:	North America / USA / Louisiana
Host:	Human
Additional location information:	East Baton Rouge Parish

[niman]

Virus name:	hCoV-19/USA/LA-EVTL03/2020
Accession ID:	EPI_ISL_435036
Type:	betacoronavirus
Passage details/history:	Original
Sample information
Collection date:	2020-04-11
Location:	North America / USA / Louisiana
Host:	Human
Additional location information:	East Baton Rouge Parish

[niman]

Virus name:	hCoV-19/USA/LA-EVTL02/2020
Accession ID:	EPI_ISL_435035
Type:	betacoronavirus
Passage details/history:	Original
Sample information
Collection date:	2020-04-11
Location:	North America / USA / Louisiana
Host:	Human
Additional location information:	East Baton Rouge Parish

[niman]

Virus name:	hCoV-19/USA/LA-EVTL01/2020
Accession ID:	EPI_ISL_435034
Type:	betacoronavirus
Passage details/history:	Original
Sample information
Collection date:	2020-04-09
Location:	North America / USA / Louisiana
Host:	Human
Additional location information:	East Feliciana Parish

[J Enders]

Thank you for posting this.

Colleagues and I have been wondering whether lineage is Italian/US east coast, West coast or some kind of “gumbo”. Betting money was on Italian lineage. Large east coast student population was present at Tulane University in New Orleans, many from NY and New Jersey. Of course toss in Mardi Gras and huge influx  of visiting tourists  and anything was possible. 

The parishes (counties) represented cover nearly the whole state, not just New Orleans, with Caddo parish on the I-20 corridor 2 hours east of Dallas and, along the I-10 corridor to the south. Samples are a good geographic representation of what infecting the state.