Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in domestic cats imposes a narrow bottleneck
K. M. Braun, G. K. Moreno, P. J. Halfmann, E. B. Hodcroft, D. A. Baker, E. C. Boehm, A. M. Weiler, A. K. Haj, M. Hatta, S. Chiba, T. Maemura, Y. Kawaoka, K. Koelle, D. O'Connor, T. Friedrich
This study shows SARS-CoV-2 in cats has limited within-host genetic variation and a narrow transmission bottleneck, with a variant H655Y emerging and spreading across transmission pairs.
bioRxiv · Nov 16, 2020Microbiology