Experimental Infection of Mink with SARS-COV-2 Omicron Variant and Subsequent Clinical Disease

Jenni Maaret Elina Virtanen; Kirsi Aaltonen; Kristel Kegler; Vinaya Venkat; Thanakorn Niamsap; Lauri Kareinen; Olga Kivela; Rasmus Albert Malmgren; Nina Atanasova; Pamela Osterlund; Teemu Smura; Antti Sukura; Tomas Strandin; Lara Dutra; Olli Vapalahti; Heli Nordgren; Ravi Kant; Tarja Sironen

doi:10.3201/eid2806.220328

Experimental Infection of Mink with SARS-COV-2 Omicron Variant and Subsequent Clinical Disease

Jenni Maaret Elina Virtanen, Kirsi Aaltonen, Kristel Kegler, Vinaya Venkat, Thanakorn Niamsap, Lauri Kareinen, Olga Kivela, Rasmus Albert Malmgren, Nina Atanasova, Pamela Osterlund, Teemu Smura, Antti Sukura, Tomas Strandin, Lara Dutra, Olli Vapalahti, Heli Nordgren, Ravi Kant, Tarja Sironen

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Abstract

We report an experimental infection of American mink with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant and show that mink remain positive for viral RNA for days, experience clinical signs and histopathologic changes, and transmit the virus to uninfected recipients. Preparedness is crucial to avoid spread among mink and spillover to human populations.

Original language	English
Journal	Emerging Infectious Diseases
Volume	28
Issue number	6
Pages (from-to)	1286-1288
Number of pages	3
ISSN	1080-6040
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2806.220328
Publication status	Published - 16 Jun 2022
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

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11832 Microbiology and virology

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Virtanen, J. M. E., Aaltonen, K., Kegler, K., Venkat, V., Niamsap, T., Kareinen, L., Kivela, O., Malmgren, R. A., Atanasova, N., Osterlund, P., Smura, T., Sukura, A., Strandin, T., Dutra, L., Vapalahti, O., Nordgren, H., Kant, R., & Sironen, T. (2022). Experimental Infection of Mink with SARS-COV-2 Omicron Variant and Subsequent Clinical Disease. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 28(6), 1286-1288. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2806.220328

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