Investigations into SARS-CoV-2 and other coronaviruses on mink farms in France late in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Soon after the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, the Betacoronavirus SARS-CoV-2 infection of several mink farms breeding American minks (Neovison vison) for fur was detected in various European countries. The risk of a new reservoir being formed and of a reverse zoonosis from minks q...

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Main Authors: Marine Wasniewski, Franck Boué, Céline Richomme, Etienne Simon-Lorière, Sylvie Van der Werf, Flora Donati, Vincent Enouf, Yannick Blanchard, Véronique Beven, Estelle Leperchois, Bryce Leterrier, Sandrine Corbet, Meriadeg Le Gouil, Elodie Monchatre-Leroy, Evelyne Picard-Meyer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2023-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0290444