Volume 29, Number 12—December 2023
Research Letter
Anthropogenic Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from Humans to Lions, Singapore, 2021
Yin Cheong Aden Ip
, Adrian Tan, Jasmine Ong, Charlene Judith Fernandez, Clara Lau, Wai Kwan Wong, Siow Foong Chang, Him Hoo Yap, and Kenneth B.H. Er
, Adrian Tan, Jasmine Ong, Charlene Judith Fernandez, Clara Lau, Wai Kwan Wong, Siow Foong Chang, Him Hoo Yap, and Kenneth B.H. Er
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Figure. Maximum-likelihood phylogenomic tree from a case of anthropogenic transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from humans to lions, Singapore, 2021. Tree reconstructed from sequences of 2 lions and 1 zookeeper (red bold text), along with 36 other publicly available sequences representing 4 variants of concern from Singapore, cases of infected lions from the Bronx Zoo, and the wild-type reference genome (GenBank accession no. NC_045512.2) as the outgroup. Scale bar indicates nucleotide substitutions per site. EPI, GISAID (https://www.gisaid.com) EpiFlu database.
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