PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Jenni Virtanen
AU  - Kirsi Aaltonen
AU  - Kristel Kegler
AU  - Vinaya Venkat
AU  - Thanakorn Niamsap
AU  - Lauri Kareinen
AU  - Rasmus Malmgren
AU  - Olga Kivelä
AU  - Nina Atanasova
AU  - Pamela Österlund
AU  - Teemu Smura
AU  - Antti Sukura
AU  - Tomas Strandin
AU  - Lara Dutra
AU  - Olli Vapalahti
AU  - Heli Nordgren
AU  - Ravi Kant
AU  - Tarja Sironen
TI  - Experimental infection of mink with SARS-COV-2 Omicron (BA.1) variant leads to symptomatic disease with lung pathology and transmission
AID  - 10.1101/2022.02.16.480524
DP  - 2022 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 2022.02.16.480524
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2022/02/16/2022.02.16.480524.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2022/02/16/2022.02.16.480524.full
AB  - We report an experimental infection of American mink with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant and show that minks remain virus RNA positive for days, develop clinical signs and histopathological changes, and transmit the virus to uninfected recipients warranting further studies and preparedness.Competing Interest StatementThe authors have declared no competing interest.