Genomic and epidemiological characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 in Africa

• Jones Lamptey ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jones Lamptey, Favour Oluwapelumi Oyelami

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre for Health System Strengthening (CfHSS), Kumasi, Ghana, Department of Microbiology, School of Medical Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana, Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR), Kumasi, Ghana

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7050-1674

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• Favour Oluwapelumi Oyelami ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jones Lamptey, Favour Oluwapelumi Oyelami

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

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• Michael Owusu ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: michaelowusu80@gmail.com (MO); yasax@hotmail.co.uk (YA)

  Affiliations Centre for Health System Strengthening (CfHSS), Kumasi, Ghana, Department of Microbiology, School of Medical Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana, Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR), Kumasi, Ghana

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• Bernard Nkrumah,

  Roles Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation African Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET), Accra, Ghana

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7613-5353

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• Paul Oluwagbenga Idowu,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Sciences, Chinese Academy of Science, Shenzhen, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2698-5026

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• Enoch Appiah Adu-Gyamfi,

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Physiology, School of Medical Sciences, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana

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• Armin Czika,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Transilvania University of Brasov, Brasov, Romania

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0801-770X

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• Philip El-Duah,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Virology, Charite University, Berlin, Germany

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• Richmond Yeboah,

  Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR), Kumasi, Ghana

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2765-6179

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• Augustina Sylverken,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR), Kumasi, Ghana, Department of Theoretical and Applied Biology, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7691-914X

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• Oluwatayo Israel Olasunkanmi,

  Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Harbin Medical University, Heilongjiang, People’s Republic of China

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• Ellis Owusu-Dabo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Public Health, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana

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• Christian Drosten,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Virology, Charite University, Berlin, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7923-0519

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• Yaw Adu-Sarkodie

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: michaelowusu80@gmail.com (MO); yasax@hotmail.co.uk (YA)

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Medical Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana

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