SARS-CoV-2 Transmission Between Mink (Neovison Vison) and Humans, Denmark

Overview

Journal Emerg Infect Dis

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2020 Nov 18

PMID 33207152

Citations 169

Authors

Anne Sofie Hammer

Michelle Lauge Quaade

Thomas Bruun Rasmussen

Jannik Fonager

Morten Rasmussen

Karin Mundbjerg

Louise Lohse

Bertel Strandbygaard

Charlotte Svaerke Jorgensen

Alonzo Alfaro-Nunez

Maiken Worsoe Rosenstierne

Anette Boklund

Tariq Halasa

Anders Fomsgaard

Graham J Belsham

Anette Botner

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Abstract

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 has caused a pandemic in humans. Farmed mink (Neovison vison) are also susceptible. In Denmark, this virus has spread rapidly among farmed mink, resulting in some respiratory disease. Full-length virus genome sequencing revealed novel virus variants in mink. These variants subsequently appeared within the local human community.

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