Coding-complete genomes of XBB.1.16, XBB.2.3, FL.4 (alias of XBB.1.9.1.4), and XBB.3 of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron isolated from Bangladesh

Saikt Rahman; Mohammad Tanbir Habib; Mokibul Hassan Afrad; Mahin Hasan; Anika Tahsin; Mohammad Jubair; Manjur Hossain Khan; Ahmed Nawsher Alam; Emran Kabir Chowdhury; Mustafizur Rahman; Edward Thomas Ryan; Tahmina Shirin; Firdausi Qadri

doi:10.1128/MRA.00562-23

Coding-complete genomes of XBB.1.16, XBB.2.3, FL.4 (alias of XBB.1.9.1.4), and XBB.3 of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron isolated from Bangladesh

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2023 Oct 19;12(10):e0056223. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00562-23. Epub 2023 Sep 5.

Authors

Saikt Rahman¹, Mohammad Tanbir Habib¹, Mokibul Hassan Afrad², Mahin Hasan¹, Anika Tahsin¹, Mohammad Jubair², Manjur Hossain Khan³, Ahmed Nawsher Alam³, Emran Kabir Chowdhury⁴, Mustafizur Rahman², Edward Thomas Ryan^{5

6

7}, Tahmina Shirin^{2

3}, Firdausi Qadri^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Institute for Developing Science and Health Initiatives, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
² International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
³ Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control, and Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
⁴ Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
⁵ Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁶ Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁷ Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Abstract

We announce the coding-complete genomes of four different strains of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron lineages, XBB.1.16, XBB.2.3, FL.4 (alias of XBB.1.9.1.4), and XBB.3. These strains were obtained between October 2022 and May 2023 from nasopharyngeal swabs of four Bangladeshi individuals, while one of them had a travel history. Genomic data were produced by implementing ARTIC Network-based amplicon sequencing using the Oxford Nanopore Technology.

Keywords: FL.4; Omicron sequence; XBB; XBB.1.16; XBB.1.9.1.4; XBB.2.3; XBB.3; descendants; recombinant lineage.

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