As COVID variants march steadily through the Greek alphabet, 永利app新版本官网地址获得了美国国立卫生研究院的新资金，继续对新罕布什尔州的COVID-19变体进行基因组监测. 这项工作可能有助于更好地了解特定变异如何增加病毒的传播性, 逃避先前感染者的免疫系统或加重症状.
“As the highly transmissible Omicron subvariant BA.5 becomes the predominant strain of COVID in the nation, 在基因组水平上理解变异比以往任何时候都更加重要.”
“As the highly transmissible Omicron subvariant BA.5 becomes the predominant strain of COVID in the nation, 在基因组水平上理解变异比以往任何时候都更加重要,” says W. Kelley Thomas, 教授兼UNH哈伯德基因组研究中心主任，UNH备受赞誉的科学主任 COVID-19 test lab.
With the grant to UNH’s Center of Integrated Biomedical and Bioengineering Research — $790,来自美国国立卫生研究院(NIH)的国家普通医学科学研究所(National Institute of General Medical Sciences)，研究人员将对大约5,000 COVID samples collected from positive tests from UNH, the state Department of Health and Human Services, and Dartmouth College and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.
“This collaboration leveraging expertise at UNH, 达特茅斯和达特茅斯希区柯克医疗中心对我们管理新冠病毒在新罕布什尔州持续存在的努力至关重要,” says Dr. Fengxiang Gao, 新罕布什尔州卫生与公众服务部公共卫生实验室局局长.
In addition, 联合国大学将评估对废水的基因组监测是否可以作为社区一级SARS-CoV-2爆发的哨兵. Paula Mouser, 她是联合国大学土木与环境工程副教授，曾在联合国大学及周边社区领导新冠病毒废水监测工作, will collaborate with Thomas on this aspect of the research.
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Beth Potier | UNH Marketing | beth.potier@dh865.com | 2-1566
