Abstract: Phylogenetic and haplotype network analysis indicated that the CA strains were derived from a common ancestral strain introduced on the CA cruise ship and spread in a superspreading event-like manner, resulting in several mutations that might have affected viral characte
Result: SARS-CoV-2 obtained novel haplotypes on the CA cruise ship to form the CA-B (
G25437T, corresponding to
L15F in the
ORF3a protein) and CA-C clusters (
G25437T+
C23604A, corresponding to
L15F+
P681H in the
ORF3a and
S protein, respectively), finally obtaining a reversion mutation,
T11195C, that was originally found in the Wuhan-Hu-1 strain (Figure 3a).