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Respiratory shedding of infectious SARS-CoV-2 Omicron XBB.1.41.1 lineage with increased evolutionary rate among captive white-tailed deer
2024-09-25
Abstract excerpt
White-tailed deer ( Odocoileus virginianus ) have high value for research, conservation, agriculture and recreation, and may be important SARS-CoV-2 reservoirs with unknown human health implications. In November 2023, we sampled 15 female deer in a captive facility in central Texas, USA. All individuals had neutralizing antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 and 11 had RT-qPCR-positive respiratory swabs; one also had a po...
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- Literature Corpus work
- eb5b6210-1e98-5778-8b7d-a3f0ca04df45
- DOI
- 10.1101/2024.09.24.613938
