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Mink, SARS-CoV-2, and the Human-Animal Interface
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021 Mink are small carnivores of the Mustelidae family. The American mink is the most common and was imported to Europe, Asia, and Latin America for breeding, as its fur is very popular.
Christian A. Devaux +2 more
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Mink SARS-CoV-2 infection in Poland – short communication
Journal of Veterinary Research, 2021 Since April 2020, when the first SARS-CoV-2 infection was reported in mink and subsequently in mink farm workers in the Netherlands, it has been confirmed that human-to-mink and mink-to-human transmission can occur.
Domańska-Blicharz Katarzyna +11 more
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SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant re-emerges in US farmed mink and free-ranging white-tailed deer in 2022–2023 [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsAmerican mink (Neogale vison) are susceptible to SARS-CoV-2, but little is known about virus circulation in mink since 2021. Here, in the first active surveillance study of SARS-CoV-2 in apparently healthy farmed mink in the United States, we find a ~0.9%
Alvin Crespo-Bellido +16 more
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Pathogenesis of Aleutian Mink Disease Virus Infection—Comparison of Natural Transmission with Experimental Aerosol and Intraperitoneal Inoculation [PDF]
PathogensThough intraperitoneal (IP) inoculation is not the natural pathway of Aleutian Mink Disease Virus (AMDV) infection in mink, it is frequently used experimentally.
Mette Sif Hansen +3 more
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Diet of Free Ranging American Mink (Neovison vison) in Denmark
Animals, 2023 Non-native American mink (Neovison vison) is a widely spread predator in Denmark. The feral population in mainland Denmark consists of captive-born mink that escaped from fur farms and wild mink born in nature, whereas the population on Bornholm is ...
René Worup Rørbæk +4 more
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Evaluation of SARS-CoV-2 passive surveillance in Lithuanian mink farms, 2020–2021
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2023 The newly emerged SARS-CoV-2, causing COVID-19 in humans, is also infecting American mink (Neovison vison), used in fur production. Since 2020, passive surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in mink farms was implemented in Lithuania.
Silvija Žigaitė +8 more
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Animals, 2022 American mink fur is an important economic product, but the molecular mechanisms underlying its color formation and fur development remain unclear. We used RNA-seq to analyze the skin transcriptomes of young and adult mink with two different hair colors.
Lidong Wang +7 more
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An outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 with high mortality in mink (Neovison vison) on multiple Utah farms
PLoS Pathogens, 2021 The breadth of animal hosts that are susceptible to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and may serve as reservoirs for continued viral transmission are not known entirely.
Chrissy D. Eckstrand +7 more
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PLoS ONE, 2023 The Danish feral mink (Neogale vison) population can be divided into wild-born and captive-born mink newly escaped from a farm. The impact of the captive-born mink on the population of feral population is unknown.
Tobias Astell Andersen +3 more
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Animals, 2021 The feral mink population in Denmark consists of two groups of animals: mink born in the wild and mink that have recently escaped from farms. The aims of this study were to: (1) estimate the reproductive performance and mortality of the Danish mink born ...
Sussie Pagh +8 more
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