Multiple spillovers and onward transmission of SARS-Cov-2 in free-living and captive White-tailed deer
S. V. Kuchipudi, M. Surendran-Nair, R. M. Ruden, M. Yon, R. H. Nissly, R. K. Nelli, L. Li, B. M. Jayarao, K. Vandegrift, C. D. Maranas, N. Levine, K. Willgert, A. J. K. Conlan, R. J. Olsen, J. Davis, , V. Kapur
SARS-CoV-2 was detected in one-third of sampled white-tailed deer in Iowa between September 2020 and January of 2021 that likely resulted from multiple human-to-deer spillover and deer-to-deer transmission events.
bioRxiv · Oct 31, 2021Microbiology