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Genoma del coronavirus en Costa Rica: provino de EE. UU., Alemania y Brasil

Análisis realizado con seis muestras tomadas a pacientes en Costa Rica mostró que la genética de este virus es la misma del hallado en aquellos países

This handout image obtained on April 29, 2020 and released by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), shows a colorized scanning electron micrograph of an apoptotic cell (red) heavily infected with SARS-COV-2 virus particles (yellow), isolated from a patient sample captured at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland. - The US intelligence community said Thursday it had concluded that the novel coronavirus that has swept the globe originated in China but was not man-made or engineered. (Photo by Handout / National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES, NIH " - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS
This handout image obtained on April 29, 2020 and released by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), shows a colorized scanning electron micrograph of an apoptotic cell (red) heavily infected with SARS-COV-2 virus particles (yellow), isolated from a patient sample captured at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland. - The US intelligence community said Thursday it had concluded that the novel coronavirus that has swept the globe originated in China but was not man-made or engineered. (Photo by Handout / National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES, NIH " - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS HANDOUT
Esta imagen, difundida por el Instituto de Alergias y Enfermedades Infecciosas de Estados Unidos (NIAID, por sus siglas en inglés), muestra una célula humana (en rojo) siendo afectada por el virus SARS-CoV-2, causante del covid-19. Fotografía: NAID (HANDOUT/AFP)

El nuevo coronavirus que circula en Costa Rica no tiene el mismo genoma del hallado en China, país donde se originó.

Su composición indica más bien que este proviene de Estados Unidos y de otros clusters que han caído en otros países, como Alemania o Brasil.

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