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Editor, Senior Moderator
Emerg Infect Dis
. 2022 Apr;28(4):833-836.
doi: 10.3201/eid2804.212219.
SARS-CoV-2 Outbreak among Malayan Tigers and Humans, Tennessee, USA, 2020
Heather N Grome, Becky Meyer, Erin Read, Martha Buchanan, Andrew Cushing, Kaitlin Sawatzki, Kara J Levinson, Linda S Thomas, Zachary Perry, Anna Uehara, Ying Tao, Krista Queen, Suxiang Tong, Ria Ghai, Mary-Margaret Fill, Timothy F Jones, William Schaffner, John Dunn
Abstract
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.
Keywords: COVID-19; Malayan tigers; SARS; SARS-CoV-2; Tennessee; United States; coronavirus; coronavirus disease; outbreak investigation; respiratory infections; severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; viruses; zoonoses.
. 2022 Apr;28(4):833-836.
doi: 10.3201/eid2804.212219.
SARS-CoV-2 Outbreak among Malayan Tigers and Humans, Tennessee, USA, 2020
Heather N Grome, Becky Meyer, Erin Read, Martha Buchanan, Andrew Cushing, Kaitlin Sawatzki, Kara J Levinson, Linda S Thomas, Zachary Perry, Anna Uehara, Ying Tao, Krista Queen, Suxiang Tong, Ria Ghai, Mary-Margaret Fill, Timothy F Jones, William Schaffner, John Dunn
- PMID: 35318922
- DOI: 10.3201/eid2804.212219
Abstract
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.
Keywords: COVID-19; Malayan tigers; SARS; SARS-CoV-2; Tennessee; United States; coronavirus; coronavirus disease; outbreak investigation; respiratory infections; severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; viruses; zoonoses.