Emerging Infectious Diseases (Apr 2022)

SARS-CoV-2 Outbreak among Malayan Tigers and Humans, Tennessee, USA, 2020

  • Heather N. Grome,
  • Becky Meyer,
  • Erin Read,
  • Martha Buchanan,
  • Andrew Cushing,
  • Kaitlin Sawatzki,
  • Kara J. Levinson,
  • Linda S. Thomas,
  • Zachary Perry,
  • Anna Uehara,
  • Ying Tao,
  • Krista Queen,
  • Suxiang Tong,
  • Ria Ghai,
  • Mary-Margaret Fill,
  • Timothy F. Jones,
  • William Schaffner,
  • John Dunn

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2804.212219
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 28, no. 4
pp. 833 – 836

Abstract

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We report an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 involving 3 Malayan tigers (Panthera tigris jacksoni) at a zoo in Tennessee, USA. Investigation identified naturally occurring tiger-to-tiger transmission; genetic sequence change occurred with viral passage. We provide epidemiologic, environmental, and genomic sequencing data for animal and human infections.

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