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Emerging Infectious Diseases
|August 23, 2021
Abstract:
We report a case of natural infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 transmitted from an owner to a pet ferret in the same household in Slovenia. The ferret had onset of gastroenteritis with severe dehydration. Whole-genome sequencing of the viruses isolated from the owner and ferret revealed a 2-nt difference.
Keywords:
COVID-19SARS-CoV-2anthropozoonosiscoronavirus diseasenatural infectionpet ferretrespiratory infectionssevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2viruseszoonoses
