Abstract: BACKGROUND: In the initial few months of the
COVID-19 pandemic, two distinct strains of severe
acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) were identified (L and
S strain) based on a tightly linked SNP between two widely separated nucleotides at location 8782 (
ORF1ab T8517C) and position 28,144 (
ORF8:
C251T, codon
S84L).
Introduction: in February 2020, analyzing 103 complete SARS-CoV-2 genomes, have found a tightly linked SNPs between two widely separated nucleotides at location 8782 (
ORF1ab T8517C) and position 28,144 (
ORF8: