American Society for Microbiology, Microbiology Spectrum, 1(11), 2023
DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.03177-22
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With the global spread of COVID-19, it is essential to identify emerging variants which may be more harmful or able to escape vaccines rapidly. To date, the gold standard to assess variants circulating in communities has been the sequencing of the S gene or the whole genome of SARS-CoV-2; however, that approach is time-consuming and expensive.