Abstract
In late 2019, an outbreak of respiratory disease named COVID-19 started
in China and rapidly spread to other parts of the world. To date,
millions of cases of infection are reported worldwide. Most researches
performed on epidemiology and clinical features of COVID-19 and a small
part of studies have focused on the genetic characteristics of this
virus. Here we performed six months study on D614G mutation in
SARS-CoV-2 isolates. Regarding the high price and low availability of
sequencing techniques in Iran, we designed the PCR-RFLP method for D614G
mutation detection and then evaluated 1440 SARS-CoV-2 positive samples
isolated in six months in Northeastern Iran. The first S-G type was
detected on 2020 June 10; after that, the number of S-G types increased
in our samples, as in the last three weeks, from 2020 September 07 to
2020 September 26, all samples belonged to this type.