SARS-CoV-2 infection in farmed minks, the Netherlands, April and May 2020

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SARS-CoV-2 infection in farmed minks, the Netherlands, April and May 2020
 
Oreshkova, Nadia; Molenaar, Robert Jan; Vreman, Sandra; Harders, Frank; Oude Munnink, Bas B.; Van Der Honing, Renate W.Hakze; Gerhards, Nora; Tolsma, Paulien; Bouwstra, Ruth; Sikkema, Reina S.; Tacken, Mirriam G.J.; De Rooij, Myrna M.T.; Weesendorp, Eefke; Engelsma, Marc Y.; Bruschke, Christianne J.M.; Smit, Lidwien A.M.; Koopmans, Marion; Van Der Poel, Wim H.M.; Stegeman, Arjan
(2020) Eurosurveillance, volume 25, issue 23
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Abstract
Respiratory disease and increased mortality occurred in minks on two farms in the Netherlands, with interstitial pneumonia and SARS-CoV-2 RNA in organ and swab samples. On both farms, at least one worker had coronavirus disease-associated symptoms before the outbreak. Variations in mink-derived viral genomes showed between-mink transmission and no infection ... read more
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Keywords: Epidemiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Virology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.23.2001005
ISSN: 1560-7917
Publisher: Centre Europeen pour la Surveillance Epidemiologique du SIDA
Note: Funding Information: We acknowledge the authors, originating and submitting laboratories of the sequences from GISAID’s EpiCov Database on which the phylogenetic analysis was based (see Supplement). All submitters of data may be contacted directly via the GISAID website www.gisaid.org Funding: This research was commissioned and funded by the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food. Publisher Copyright: © 2020 European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). All rights reserved.
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