Insights from Genomes and Genetic Epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 isolates from the state of Andhra Pradesh

AbstractCoronavirus disease (COVID-19) emerged from a city in China and has now spread as a global pandemic affecting millions of individuals. The causative agent, SARS-CoV-2 is being extensively studied in terms of its genetic epidemiology using genomic approaches. Andhra Pradesh is one of the major states of India with the third-largest number of COVID-19 cases with limited understanding of its genetic epidemiology. In this study, we have sequenced 293 SARS-CoV-2 genome isolates from Andhra Pradesh with a mean coverage of 13,324X. We identified 564 high-quality SARS-CoV-2 variants, out of which 15 are novel. A total of 18 variants mapped to RT-PCR primer/probe sites, and 4 variants are known to be associated with an increase in infectivity. Phylogenetic analysis of the genomes revealed the circulating SARS-CoV-2 in Andhra Pradesh majorly clustered under the clade A2a (94%), while 6% fall under the I/A3i clade, a clade previously defined to be present in large numbers in India. To the best of our knowledge, this is the most comprehensive genetic epidemiological analysis performed for the state of Andhra Pradesh.

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The Impact of Isoniazid Resistance on the Treatment Outcomes of Smear Positive Re-Treatment Tuberculosis Patients in the State of Andhra Pradesh, India

PLoS ONE ◽

10.1371/journal.pone.0076189 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 8 (10) ◽

pp. e76189 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Dorai Deepa ◽

Shanta Achanta ◽

Jyoti Jaju ◽

Koteswara Rao ◽

Rani Samyukta ◽

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Keyword(s):

Treatment Outcomes ◽

Andhra Pradesh ◽

The State ◽

Isoniazid Resistance ◽

Tuberculosis Patients ◽

The Impact

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Awareness about Oral Cancer among Dental Postgraduate Students in the State of Andhra Pradesh, India

Journal of Cancer Education ◽

10.1007/s13187-014-0620-3 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 29 (4) ◽

pp. 665-668 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

P. Ramaswamy ◽

Ginjupally Uday ◽

P. Sreenivasulu ◽

B. Praveen Kumar ◽

Tanya Khaitan ◽

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Keyword(s):

Oral Cancer ◽

Andhra Pradesh ◽

The State ◽

Postgraduate Students

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CONTEMPORARY ART SCENARIO IN THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH

EPRA International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research (IJMR) ◽

10.36713/epra7344 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 186-192

Author(s):

Dr. K. Mrutyunjaya Rao

Keyword(s):

Key Words ◽

Art Education ◽

Contemporary Art ◽

Andhra Pradesh ◽

The State ◽

Art Departments ◽

Art School

The Art activity in the state of Andhra Pradesh was pioneered by Damerla Ramarao and Varada Venkataratnam with the help some English officers and some of their disciples. Later whole art activity is concentrated at Hyderabad till the state bifurcation in 2014. The Art education and Institutions were discussed in details. The arrival of Baroda school product has helped us to mark our self as distinct school on the cultural map of India with help of Ravinder G Reddy, V.Ramesh, T.Sudhakara Reddy, CRS Patnaik and Dr. K.Mrutyunjaya Rao. These masters has succeeded to paved a bridge between art and Contemporary art of India. Later the product of Andhra art school has spreaded all over the state and country. Two art departments emerged in the region of Rayalaseema under the lead of Dr.K. Mrutyunjaya Rao. Due to state bifurcation, the major art activity and development has gone to Telangana. The Residual Andhra Pradesh has lost so much. Many of Andhra Artists settled at other states for bread and butter. But now recovering slowly. KEY WORDS: Damerla Rama Rao , Baroda, Contemporary, Aesthetic, Scrap Sculpture, Kadapa,

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Eight families of Bryophytes as new distributional records for Andhra Pradesh, India

Tropical Plant Research ◽

10.22271/tpr.2020.v7.i3.069 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 7 (3) ◽

pp. 565-572

Author(s):

Ananthaneni Sreenath ◽

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Paradesi Anjaneyulu ◽

S. M. Nagesh ◽

M. Anil Kumar ◽

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Keyword(s):

Andhra Pradesh ◽

The State ◽

Representative Species

Eight families (two liverworts; six mosses) of Bryophytes, with ten representative species viz., Liverworts- Cephaloziellaceae (Cephaloziella kiaeri, Cylindrocolea tagawae), Porellaceae (Porella acutifolia); Mosses- Erpodiaceae (Solmsiella biseriata), Hylocomiaceae (Leptohymenium tenue), Myuriaceae (Myurium perplexum), Pterigynandraceae (Pterigynandrum filiforme), Sematophyllaceae (Sematophyllum humile and Sematophyllum subhumile), and Trachypodaceae (Bryowijkia ambigua) are new distributional records for the state of Andhra Pradesh, India.

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State Capacity and Welfare Politics in India: Implementing the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in Undivided Andhra Pradesh

Indian Journal of Human Development ◽

10.1177/0973703018794337 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 282-297 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Rahul Mukherji ◽

Seyed Hossein Zarhani ◽

K. Raju

Keyword(s):

Andhra Pradesh ◽

The State ◽

Mahatma Gandhi ◽

Rural Employment ◽

Right To Work ◽

Indian State ◽

Path Dependent ◽

The Right ◽

Employment Guarantee ◽

Employment Guarantee Scheme

This article argues that the Indian state can develop the capacity to deliver economic rights in a citizen-friendly way, despite serious challenges posed by patronage politics and clientelism. Clientelistic politics reveals why the Indian state fails to deliver the basic rights such as the right to work, health and education. We argue that the ability of the state to deliver owes a lot to bureaucratic puzzling and political powering over developmental ideas in a path-dependent way. We combine powering and puzzling within the state to argue the case for how these ideas tip after they have gained a fair amount of traction within the state. We test the powering and puzzling leading to a tipping point model on the implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in undivided Andhra Pradesh (AP). How and why did undivided AP develop the capacity to make reach employment to the rural poor, when many other states failed to implement the right to work in India?

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