{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Kok KH"],"funding":["Shaw Foundation Hong Kong,","Food and Health Bureau","Hui Ming, Hui Hoy and Chow Sin Lan Charity Fund Limited","Consultancy Service for Enhancing Laboratory Surveillance of Emerging Infectious Diseases","Health and Medical Research Fund","Theme-based Research Scheme","Michael Seak-Kan Tong, May Tam Mak Mei Yin Lee Wan Keung Charity Foundation Limited","Research Capability on Antimicrobial Resistance for Department of Health of the HKSAR","Lo Ying Shek Chi Wai Foundation","Providence Foundation Limited","Marina Man-Wai Lee","The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region","Hong Kong Hainan Commercial Association South China Microbiology Research Fund","University Grant Committee"],"pagination":["689-698"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC8890519"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["11(1)"],"pubmed_abstract":["During the investigation of a pet shop outbreak of severe acute respiratory coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) with probable hamster-to-human transmission, the environmental and hamster samples in epidemiologically linked pet shops were found positive for SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant AY.127 strains which are phylogenetically closely related to patients and reported European strains. This interspecies' spill-over has triggered transmission in 58 patients epidemiologically linked to three pet shops. Incidentally, three dwarf hamsters imported from the Netherlands and centralized in a warehouse distributing animals to pet shops were positive for SARS-CoV-2 spike variant phylogenetically related to European B.1.258 strains from March 2020. This B.1.258 strain almost disappeared in July 2021. While no hams"],"journal":["Emerging microbes & infections"],"pubmed_title":["Co-circulation of two SARS-CoV-2 variant strains within imported pet hamsters in Hong Kong."],"pmcid":["PMC8890519"],"funding_grant_id":["6 and 9","COVID1903010 – Project 1","T11-709/21-N"],"pubmed_authors":["Chu AW","Chan WM","Ip JD","Ng KNH","Lo HW","Lung D","Wen L","Lam BH","Ho AY","Cheng VC","Wong SC","Siu GK","Yuen KY","Tse H","Lee LK","Kok KH","Wong IT","Au AK"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Co-circulation of two SARS-CoV-2 variant strains within imported pet hamsters in Hong Kong.","description":"During the investigation of a pet shop outbreak of severe acute respiratory coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) with probable hamster-to-human transmission, the environmental and hamster samples in epidemiologically linked pet shops were found positive for SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant AY.127 strains which are phylogenetically closely related to patients and reported European strains. This interspecies' spill-over has triggered transmission in 58 patients epidemiologically linked to three pet shops. Incidentally, three dwarf hamsters imported from the Netherlands and centralized in a warehouse distributing animals to pet shops were positive for SARS-CoV-2 spike variant phylogenetically related to European B.1.258 strains from March 2020. This B.1.258 strain almost disappeared in July 2021. While no hams","dates":{"release":"2022-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2022 Dec","modification":"2025-04-04T19:30:12.863Z","creation":"2025-04-04T19:30:12.863Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC8890519","cross_references":{"pubmed":["35135441"],"doi":["10.1080/22221751.2022.2040922"]}}