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Volume 27, Number 7—July 2021
Research Letter

Possible Human-to-Dog Transmission of SARS-CoV-2, Italy, 2020

Nicola DecaroComments to Author , Gabriele Vaccari, Alessio Lorusso, Eleonora Lorusso, Luca De Sabato, Edward I. Patterson, Ilaria Di Bartolo, Grant L. Hughes, Liana Teodori, Costantina Desario, Barbara Colitti, Dominga Ricci, Domenico Buonavoglia, Sergio Rosati, Vito Martella, Cesare Cammà, Umberto Agrimi, and Gabriella Elia
Author affiliations: University of Bari, Valenzano, Italy (N. Decaro, E. Lorusso, C. Desario, D. Buonavoglia, V. Martella, G. Elia); Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy (G. Vaccari, L. De Sabato, I. Di Bartolo, U. Agrimi); Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo e del Molise “G. Caporale,” Teramo, Italy (A. Lorusso, L. Teodori, C. Cammà); Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK (E.I. Patterson, G.L. Hughes); University of Turin, Turin, Italy (B. Colitti, S. Rosati); Ambulatorio Veterinario Dott.ssa Ricci Dominga, Andria, Italy (D. Ricci)

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Maximum-likelihood tree comparing 108 strains of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 circulating among humans and canines. Tree shows 107 complete genomes downloaded from the GISAID database (https://www.gisaid.org) and the strains sequenced from an infected dog and family member in Italy (bold red text). The tree was built with IQ-TREE version 1.6.10 (http://www.iqtree.org) using the best fit model indicated by the Model Finder with 1,000 bootstrap replicates. Text at nodes indicates bootstrap values >70. Brackets to the right indicate clades. Scale bar indicates number of nucleotide substitutions per site.

Figure. Maximum-likelihood tree comparing 108 strains of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 circulating among humans and canines. Tree shows 107 complete genomes downloaded from the GISAID database (https://www.gisaid.org) and the strains sequenced from an infected dog and family member in Italy (bold red text). The tree was built with IQ-TREE version 1.6.10 (http://www.iqtree.org) using the best fit model indicated by the Model Finder with 1,000 bootstrap replicates. Text at nodes indicates bootstrap values >70. Brackets to the right indicate clades. Scale bar indicates number of nucleotide substitutions per site.

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