Article
Highly divergent white-tailed deer SARS-CoV-2 with potential deer-to-human transmission
2022-02-25
Abstract excerpt
Wildlife reservoirs of SARS-CoV-2 may enable viral adaptation and spillback from animals to humans. In North America, there is evidence of unsustained spillover of SARS-CoV-2 from humans to white-tailed deer ( Odocoileus virginianus ), but no evidence of transmission from deer to humans. Through a biosurveillance program in Ontario, Canada we identified a new and highly divergent lineage of SARS-CoV-2 in white-ta...
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- Literature Corpus work
- c3bd9dbc-e06e-511f-a0c7-71b5e9859ac8
- DOI
- 10.1101/2022.02.22.481551
