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What did they analyze? The transmission of SARS-CoV-2 to new animal reservoirs and back to humans.
What methods did they use? Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) of SARS-CoV-2 variants in mink farms. They analyzed the samples taken from mink, and from the workers in those farms.
Does this paper study COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, or a related disease and/or virus? This paper studies the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from human to mink and back to human with a new variant.
What is the main finding (or a few main takeaways)? This paper describes the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 in mink farms and the mutational landscape of the variants detected in mink. Besides the biological findings, the technical novelty of the paper is the use of WGS in the surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 outbreak.
What does this paper tell us about the background and/or diagnostics/therapeutics for COVID-19 / SARS-CoV-2? This paper tells us that SARS-CoV-2 can acquire new hosts through human, in mink farms in particular. It can evolve in the new hosts, acquire new mutations and is transmitted back to humans.
Do you have any concerns about methodology or the interpretation of these results beyond this analysis? None.
Title: Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 on mink farms between humans and mink and back to humans
General Information
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Link: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6525/172
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Citation: @doi:10.1126/science.abe5901
Is this paper primarily relevant to Background or Pathogenesis?
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