Prolonged SARS-CoV-2 RNA Shedding from Therapy Cat after Cluster Outbreak in Retirement Home

We report a therapy cat in a nursing home in Germany infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 during a cluster outbreak in the home residents. Although we confirmed prolonged presence of virus RNA in the asymptomatic cat, genome sequencing showed no further role of the cat in hu...

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Autores principales: Schulz, Claudia, Wylezich, Claudia, Wernike, Kerstin, Gründl, Magdalena, Dangel, Alexandra, Baechlein, Christine, Hoffmann, Donata, Röhrs, Susanne, Hepner, Sabrina, Ackermann, Nikolaus, Sing, Andreas, Pink, Isabelle, Länger, Beate, Volk, Holger A., Becher, Paul, Sutter, Gerd, Neubauer-Juric, Antonie, von Köckritz-Blickwede, Maren, Beer, Martin, Volz, Asisa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2021
Materias:
Research Letter
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8237873/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34152973
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2707.204670
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Sumario:We report a therapy cat in a nursing home in Germany infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 during a cluster outbreak in the home residents. Although we confirmed prolonged presence of virus RNA in the asymptomatic cat, genome sequencing showed no further role of the cat in human infections on site.

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