Reverse-zoonotic transmission of SARS-CoV-2 lineage alpha (B.1.1.7) to great apes and exotic felids in a zoo in the Czech Republic

We report an outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 lineage alpha in gorillas and felid species in a zoo in Prague, Czech Republic. The course of illness and clinical signs are described, as are the results of characterization of these particular SARS-CoV-2 variants by next-generation sequencing and phylogenetic an...

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Published inArchives of virology Vol. 167; no. 8; pp. 1681 - 1685
Main Authors Nagy, Alexander, Stará, Martina, Vodička, Roman, Černíková, Lenka, Jiřincová, Helena, Křivda, Vlastimil, Sedlák, Kamil
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Vienna Springer Vienna 01.08.2022
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Animals
Biomedical and Life Sciences
Biomedicine
Brief Report
Cats
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Czech Republic - epidemiology
Disease transmission
Felidae
Females
Genomes
Hominidae
Humans
Illnesses
Infectious Diseases
Medical Microbiology
Next-generation sequencing
Phylogenetics
Phylogeny
Public health
SARS-CoV-2 - genetics
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
Virology
Zoo animals
Zoonoses
Zoos
Czech Republic
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Summary:We report an outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 lineage alpha in gorillas and felid species in a zoo in Prague, Czech Republic. The course of illness and clinical signs are described, as are the results of characterization of these particular SARS-CoV-2 variants by next-generation sequencing and phylogenetic analysis. The putative transmission routes are also discussed.
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Handling Editor: Diego G. Diel
ISSN:0304-8608
1432-8798
DOI:10.1007/s00705-022-05469-9