FILE PHOTO: The Methodist Hospital is pictured in the Texas Medical Center in Houston December 27, 2012. REUTERS/Richard Carson/File Photo
(Reuters) - The first study to analyze the structure of the novel coronavirus from two waves of infection in a major city found that a more contagious strain dominates recent samples, researchers from Houston Methodist Hospital said on Wednesday.
They examined more than 5,000 genomes from viruses recovered in the earliest phase of the pandemic in Houston, an ethnically diverse city of 7 million, and from an ongoing more recent wave of infections.
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