%0 Journal Article
%9 ACL : Articles dans des revues avec comité de lecture répertoriées par l'AERES
%A Krafft, E.
%A Denolly, S.
%A Boson, B.
%A Angelloz-Pessey, S.
%A Levaltier, S.
%A Nesi, N.
%A Corbet, S.
%A Leterrier, B.
%A Fritz, Matthieu
%A Leroy, Eric
%A Gouilh, M. A.
%A Cosset, F. L.
%A Kodjo, A.
%A Legros, V.
%T Report of one-year prospective surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in dogs and cats in France with various exposure risks : confirmation of a low prevalence of shedding, detection and complete sequencing of an Alpha variant in a cat
%D 2021
%L fdi:010083191
%G ENG
%J Viruses
%K SARS-CoV-2 ; variants ; prevalence ; sequencing ; zoonosis
%K FRANCE
%M ISI:000700163200001
%N 9
%P 1759 [12 ]
%R 10.3390/v13091759
%U https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010083191
%> https://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/2021-11/010083191.pdf
%V 13
%W Horizon (IRD)
%X Despite the probable zoonotic origin of SARS-CoV-2, only limited research efforts have been made to understand the role of companion animals in SARS-CoV-2 epidemiology. According to recent serological prevalence studies, human-to-companion animal transmission is quite frequent, which led us to consider that the risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission from animal to human, albeit negligible in the present context, may have been underestimated. In this study, we provide the results of a prospective survey that was conducted to evaluate the SARS-CoV-2 isolation rate by qRT-PCR in dogs and cats with different exposure risks and clinical statuses. From April 2020 to April 2021, we analyzed 367 samples and investigated the presence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA using qRT-PCR. Only four animals tested positive, all of them being cats. Three cats were asymptomatic and one presented a coryza-like syndrome. We describe in detail the infection in two cats and the associated clinical characteristics. Importantly, we obtained SARS-CoV-2 genomes from one infected animal and characterized them as Alpha variants. This represents the first identification of the SARS-CoV-2 Alpha variant in an infected animal in France.
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