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    Schulz, Claudia; Wylezich, Claudia; Wernike, Kerstin; Gründl, Magdalena; Dangel, Alexandra; Baechlein, Christine; Hoffmann, Donata; Röhrs, Susanne; Hepner, Sabrina; Ackermann, Nikolaus; Sing, Andreas; Pink, Isabelle; Länger, Beate; Volk, Holger A; Becher, Paul; Sutter, Gerd; Neubauer-Juric, Antonie; von Köckritz-Blickwede, Maren; Beer, Martin; Volz, Asisa

    Emerging infectious diseases, 07/2021, Volume: 27, Issue: 7
    Journal Article

    We report a therapy cat in a nursing home in Germany infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 during a cluster outbreak in the home residents. Although we confirmed prolonged presence of virus RNA in the asymptomatic cat, genome sequencing showed no further role of the cat in human infections on site.