Genomic epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in Peru from 2020 to 2024

Sobkowiak, Benjamin; Langdon, Amy E.; Romero, Pedro E.; Carrasco-Escobar, Gabriel; Villa, Diego; Cava Miller, Renato; Cornejo, Victor G.; Dávila-Barclay, Alejandra; Cuicapuza, Diego; Salvatierra, Guillermo R.; González, Luis; Ayzanoa, Brenda; Huancachoque, Janet; Marcos-Carbajal, Pool; Gómez De La Torre, Juan Carlos; Barletta, Claudia; Chenet, Stella M.; Tapia-Limonchi, Rafael; Ballon, Jorge Andres; Fernández, Patrick

doi:10.1038/s43856-025-01273-z

Genomic epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in Peru from 2020 to 2024

Author(s)

Sobkowiak, Benjamin

Langdon, Amy E.

Romero, Pedro E.

Carrasco-Escobar, Gabriel

Villa, Diego

Cava Miller, Renato

Cornejo, Victor G.

Dávila-Barclay, Alejandra

Cuicapuza, Diego

Salvatierra, Guillermo R.

González, Luis

Ayzanoa, Brenda

Huancachoque, Janet

Marcos-Carbajal, Pool

Universidad Peruana Unión

Gómez De La Torre, Juan Carlos

Barletta, Claudia

Chenet, Stella M.

Tapia-Limonchi, Rafael

Ballon, Jorge Andres

Fernández, Patrick

Valderrama, Rosario

Leguia, Mariana

Delgado-Ratto, Christopher

Gotuzzo, Eduardo H.

Zamudio, Carlos Caicedo

Lescano, Willy

Cárcamo, Cesar P.

Hurtado, Verónica

Lope-Pari, Priscila

Padilla-Rojas, Carlos P.

Jiménez-Vásquez, Víctor Alberto

Escalante-Maldonado, Oscar Roberto

Araujo-Castillo, Roger V.

Cabezas-Sánchez, César Augusto

Colijn, Caroline

Tsukayama, Pablo

Date Issued

2026

Type

Article

Publisher

Springer Nature

Volume

6

Issue

1

Contained in

Communications Medicine

DOI

10.1038/s43856-025-01273-z

Financiamiento(s)

PE501086419-2024

Sponsor(s)

We thank all the researchers, healthcare workers, laboratory technicians, patients, and individuals who contributed to generating the genomic sequences analyzed in this study. This work was funded by (1) Peru\u2019s National Program for Scientific Research and Advanced Studies (PROCIENCIA \u2013 CONCYTEC) Contract PE501086419-2024-PROCIENCIA, (2) D43 TW007393 training grant awarded to UPCH by the Fogarty International Center of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, (3) US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cooperative agreement award GH00266, (4) VLIRUOS JOINT project \u201CImproved infectious diseases control in Peru through sustainable capacity building for bioinformatics and genome sequencing\u201D (PE2019JOI018A102), and (5) Wellcome Sanger Institute International Fellowship awarded to P.T.