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New detection of SARS-CoV-2 in two cats height months after COVID-19 outbreak appearance in France

View ORCID ProfileMatthieu Fritz, View ORCID ProfileNicolas Nesi, View ORCID ProfileSolène Denolly, View ORCID ProfileBertrand Boson, View ORCID ProfileVincent Legros, View ORCID ProfileSerge G. Rosolen, Alexandra Briend-Marchal, View ORCID ProfileMeriadeg Ar Gouilh, View ORCID ProfileEric M. Leroy
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.03.24.436830
Matthieu Fritz
aInstitut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Maladies Infectieuses et vecteurs: Ecologie, Génétique, Evolution et Contrôle (MIVEGEC) (IRD 224 - CNRS 5290 – Université de Montpellier), Montpellier, France
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Nicolas Nesi
bGroupe de Recherche sur l’Adaptation Microbienne (GRAM 2.0), Normandie Univ, UNICAEN, UNIROUEN, EA2656, Caen, France
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Solène Denolly
cCIRI – Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie, Team EVIR, Univ Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Inserm, U111, CNRS, UMR5308, ENS Lyon, Lyon, France
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Bertrand Boson
cCIRI – Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie, Team EVIR, Univ Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Inserm, U111, CNRS, UMR5308, ENS Lyon, Lyon, France
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Vincent Legros
cCIRI – Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie, Team EVIR, Univ Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Inserm, U111, CNRS, UMR5308, ENS Lyon, Lyon, France
dUniversité de Lyon, VetAgro Sup, Campus vétérinaire de Lyon, Marcy-l’Etoile, France
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Serge G. Rosolen
eSorbonne Université, INSERM, CNRS, Institut de la Vision, Paris, France
fClinique vétérinaire voltaire, Asnières, France
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Alexandra Briend-Marchal
gLaboratoire de Biologie vétérinaire VEBIO, Arcueil, France
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Meriadeg Ar Gouilh
bGroupe de Recherche sur l’Adaptation Microbienne (GRAM 2.0), Normandie Univ, UNICAEN, UNIROUEN, EA2656, Caen, France
hLaboratoire de Virologie, Centre Hospitalo-Universitaire, Caen, France
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Eric M. Leroy
aInstitut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Maladies Infectieuses et vecteurs: Ecologie, Génétique, Evolution et Contrôle (MIVEGEC) (IRD 224 - CNRS 5290 – Université de Montpellier), Montpellier, France
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Abstract

Although there are several reports in the literature of SARS-CoV-2 infection in cats, few SARS-CoV-2 sequences from infected cats have been published. In this report, SARS-CoV-2 infection was evaluated in two cats by clinical observation, molecular biology (qPCR and NGS), and serology (Microsphere immunoassay and seroneutralization). Following the observation of symptomatic SARS-CoV-2-infection in two cats, infection status was confirmed by RT-qPCR and, in one cat, serological analysis for antibodies against N-protein and S-protein, as well as neutralizing antibodies. Comparative analysis of five SARS-CoV-2 sequence-fragments obtained from one of the cats showed that this infection was not with one of the three recently emerged variants of SARS-CoV-2. This study provides additional information on the clinical, molecular, and serological aspects of SARS-CoV-2 infection in cats.

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New detection of SARS-CoV-2 in two cats height months after COVID-19 outbreak appearance in France
Matthieu Fritz, Nicolas Nesi, Solène Denolly, Bertrand Boson, Vincent Legros, Serge G. Rosolen, Alexandra Briend-Marchal, Meriadeg Ar Gouilh, Eric M. Leroy
bioRxiv 2021.03.24.436830; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.03.24.436830
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New detection of SARS-CoV-2 in two cats height months after COVID-19 outbreak appearance in France
Matthieu Fritz, Nicolas Nesi, Solène Denolly, Bertrand Boson, Vincent Legros, Serge G. Rosolen, Alexandra Briend-Marchal, Meriadeg Ar Gouilh, Eric M. Leroy
bioRxiv 2021.03.24.436830; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.03.24.436830

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