Coding-Complete Genome Sequence of a SARS-CoV-2 Strain Isolated in Gilgit, Pakistan

Aneela Javed; Saifullah Khan Niazi; Eijaz Ghani; Maham Yamin; Muhammad Saqib; Hussnain A Janjua; Ali Zohaib

doi:10.1128/MRA.01151-20

Coding-Complete Genome Sequence of a SARS-CoV-2 Strain Isolated in Gilgit, Pakistan

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2021 Apr 1;10(13):e01151-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01151-20.

Authors

Aneela Javed^#¹, Saifullah Khan Niazi^#², Eijaz Ghani², Maham Yamin¹, Muhammad Saqib³, Hussnain A Janjua¹, Ali Zohaib^{4

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Affiliations

¹ Atta-ur-Rahman School of Applied Biosciences, National University of Science and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan.
² Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP), Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
³ Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Faisalabad, Pakistan drsaqib_vet@hotmail.com alizohaib7@hotmail.com.
⁴ Atta-ur-Rahman School of Applied Biosciences, National University of Science and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan drsaqib_vet@hotmail.com alizohaib7@hotmail.com.
⁵ Faculty of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, Pakistan.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

Here, we report the coding-complete genome sequence of a severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) isolate obtained from a nasopharyngeal swab from the first patient with COVID-19 in Gilgit, Pakistan.