SARS-CoV-2 Outbreak among Malayan Tigers and Humans, Tennessee, USA, 2020

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Grome, Heather N. ; Meyer, Becky ; Read, Erin ; Buchanan, Martha ; Cushing, Andrew ; Sawatzki, Kaitlin ; Levinson, Kara J. ; Thomas, Linda S. ; Perry, Zachary ; Uehara, Anna ; Tao, Ying ; Queen, Krista ; Tong, Suxiang ; Ghai, Ria ; Fill, Mary-Margaret ; Jones, Timothy F. ; Schaffner, William ; Dunn, John
• Description:
  We report an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 involving 3 Malayan tigers (Panthera tigris jacksoni) at a zoo in Tennessee, USA. Investigation identified naturally occurring tiger-to-tiger transmission; genetic sequence change occurred with viral passage. We provide epidemiologic, environmental, and genomic sequencing data for animal and human infections.
• Subjects:
  Animals Covid-19 Disease Outbreaks Humans Sars-Cov-2 Tigers
• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 2022; 28(4):833-836
• Pubmed ID:
  35318922
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC8962897
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  HHSN272201400008C/AI/NIAID NIH HHSUnited States/ ; HHSN272201400008C/NH/NIH HHSUnited States/
• Place as Subject:
  Tennessee
• Volume:
  28
• Issue:
  4
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:1f15c305f9ed5fd18a2af1edf7686230a72c8df41d1e955845a569dd8dece3d0
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/116339/cdc_116339_DS1.pdf
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