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Dental medicine’s Rui Amaral Mendes pens piece on the importance of genome surveillance in tracking COVID-19 sub-variants

Publications + Presentations | March 31, 2022 | Story by: Editorial Staff

Rui Amaral Mendes, adjunct professor of oral and maxillofacial medicine at ӰƵ School of Dental Medicine, wrote a letter to the editor of the British Medical Journal in which he addressed the need for optimized genome surveillance of Omicron in order to track the new COVID-19 sub-variant, BA.2. 

Mendes’ letter draws from an article he co-authored,,” that was published by the British Medical Journal on March 11.