Microbiologist Senjuti Saha is the Director of the non-profit Child Health Research
Foundation (CHRF), in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and a strong advocate for equity in global
health research. When she received a grant in 2018 to set up a sequencing facility
at CHRF and got the non-governmental organisation s first sequencing machine, she
says, “I wanted to show the world that you could be anywhere in the world and be able
to sequence. You don’t have to ship samples out to the US or UK. You can sequence
wherever you are and everybody s capable.
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COVID-19 rise in Bangladesh correlates with increasing detection of B.1.351 variant
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Senjuti Saha, Arif M Tanmoy, Yogesh Hooda, Afroza Akter Tanni, Sharmistha Goswami, Syed Muktadir Al Sium, Mohammad Saiful Islam Sajib, Roly Malaker, Shuborno Islam, Hafizur Rahman, Ataul Mustufa Anik, Nikkon Sarker, Mohammad Shahidul Islam, Kinkar Ghosh, Probir Kumar Sarkar, Mohammed Rizwanul Ahsan Bipul, Syed Shafi Ahmed, Mohammod Shahidullah, Samir K Saha
Epidemiological, phenotypic and genomic characterisation of certain variants of SARS-CoV-2 have highlighted the changing transmissibility, infectivity and antigenic escape capability of this virus. Of considerable interest are the B.1.1.7 variant (20I/501Y.V1) and B.1.351 variant (20H/501Y.V2) that have now been reported from multiple countries around the world. B.1.1.7 was first detected in September 2020 in the UK through genomic surveillance, and it contains a mutation (N501Y) in the receptor-binding domain of the spike protein that ha