Article
Testing for a wildlife reservoir of divergent SARS-CoV-2 in white-tailed deer
2025-05-23
Abstract excerpt
The 2021 discovery of a divergent lineage (B.1.641) of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in white-tailed deer ( Odocoileus virginianus ) from Ontario raised concerns that deer were a potential reservoir. To assess whether white-tailed deer continued to be infected with B.1.641 and to test for spillover into other species, we established a surveillance program in Ontario by sampling wild...
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- Literature Corpus work
- d7fccff2-590c-5249-b952-4d7c3fe5fa8c
- DOI
- 10.1101/2025.05.22.655348
