Day11ofLockdown: SA scientists make important Covid-19 discovery | SACoronaMonitor
Cape Town - Scientists around the world have been tirelessly working to find a cure for Covid-19. A group of South African scientists and researchers have contributed to the cause and have made a vital discovery.
Scientists from the NICD were able to obtain enough virus DNA from a sample to complete a virus genome. “Ideally, you want to be able to analyse virus DNA samples to better understand the spread of disease or predict when an outbreak will occur,” says Van Heusden. “With a sufficient number of sequenced genomes, it is possible to reconstruct a phylogenetic tree of the mutation history of a family of viruses.”
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