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Volume 27, Number 12—December 2021
Dispatch

SARS-CoV-2–Specific Antibodies in Domestic Cats during First COVID-19 Wave, Europe

Claudia Schulz1, Byron Martina1, Monica Mirolo, Elisabeth Müller, Ruth Klein, Holger Volk, Herman Egberink, Mariana Gonzalez-Hernandez, Franziska Kaiser, Maren von Köckritz-Blickwede, and Albert OsterhausComments to Author 
Author affiliations: University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Hannover, Germany (C. Schulz, M. Mirolo, H. Volk, M. Gonzalez-Hernandez, F. Kaiser, M. von Köckritz-Blickwede, A. Osterhaus); Artemis One Health Research Foundation, Delft, the Netherlands (B. Martina, M. Mirolo); LABOklin, Kissingen, Germany (E. Müller, R. Klein); Utrecht University Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht, the Netherlands (H. Egberink)

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Table 1

Overall VNT SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence in cats by country during the first pandemic wave, Europe, April–August 2020*

Location No. tested No. positive % Positive (95% CI†)
Germany 1,136 48 4.2 (3.1–5.6)
United Kingdom 331 11 3.3 (1.7–5.9)
Italy 333 14 4.2 (2.3–7.0)
Spain
 360
 23
 6.4 (4.1–9.4)
Total 2,160 96 4.4 (3.6–5.4)

*Seroprevalence determined by virus neutralization test (VNT). Similar results were found with RBD-ELISA, 4.3% (96/2,160; 95% CI 3.6%–5.4%) were seropositive (Table 2). RBD-ELISA, receptor-binding domain–specific ELISA; SARS-CoV-2, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; VNT, virus neutralization test. †Calculated by using 2-sided exact binomial test in R (R Foundation for Statistical Computing, https://www.r-project.org).

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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