key: cord-0952690-09r8xd0u authors: Romero, Pedro E. title: Comment on “Genetic variants and source of introduction of SARS‐CoV‐2 in South America” date: 2020-06-16 journal: J Med Virol DOI: 10.1002/jmv.26122 sha: 5bf85e016caca10a3ba3b32f92e308f497ef2316 doc_id: 952690 cord_uid: 09r8xd0u I read with great interest a recent study by Poterico and Mestanza1 who described mutations in 30 SARS-CoV-2 genomes from South American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru) This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. To the Editor, I read with great interest a recent study by Poterico Genetic variants and source of introduction of SARS-CoV-2 in South America Towards a genomics-informed, real-time, global pathogen surveillance system Trimmomatic: a flexible trimmer for Illumina sequence data SPAdes: a new genome assembly algorithm and its applications to Single-Cell Sequencing Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2 MAFFT multiple sequence alignment software version 7: improvements in performance and usability Supporting information for "Comment on Genetic variants and source of introduction of SARS-CoV-2 in South America Near-complete genome sequence of a 2019 Novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) strain causing a COVID-19 case in Peru Bootstrap confidence levels for phylogenetic trees