Variant patterns and influence of inter-regional travel during the SARS-CoV-2 expansion in South Africa

• Weiyu Luo,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, Villanova University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7987-2199

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• Xin Wu,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, Villanova University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Ruohan Li,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, Villanova University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8102-7376

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• Meagan Fitzpatrick,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Medicine, University of Maryland Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Man Charurat,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Medicine, University of Maryland Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Natalia Blanco,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Medicine, University of Maryland Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Kristen A. Stafford,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Medicine, University of Maryland Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5620-6436

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• Vivek Naranbhai,

  Roles Writing – review & editing, Conceptualization

  Affiliations CAPRISA - Centre for AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa, Congella, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, School of Translational Medicine, Department of Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia,

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• Alash’le Abimiku,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Medicine, University of Maryland Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Institute of Human Virology Nigeria, Abuja, Nigeria

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• Anna Winters,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Akros Research, Kabulonga, Lusaka, Zambia

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• INFORM Africa Research Study Group for D-SI Africa Consortium ,

  ¶Membership of INFORM Africa Research Study Group for D-SI Africa Consortium is provided in the Acknowledgments.

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• Chenfeng Xiong

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: chenfeng.xiong@villanova.edu

  Affiliation Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, Villanova University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4237-1750

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