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Research Paper

SARS-CoV-2 in companion animals: Do levels of SARS-CoV-2 seroconversion in pets correlate with those of pet’s owners and with protection against subsequent SARS-CoV-2 infection?

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Pages 1216-1220 | Received 31 May 2022, Accepted 30 Jun 2022, Published online: 01 Aug 2022
 

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank K. Little, T. Ruska, and L. Kranz (MN Veterinary Clinical Pathology Laboratory) for collecting and preparing discarded serum samples from pets for this study.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Data availability statement

Data reported in the figure and table in this article have been deposited in a recognized data repository (Figshare.com) with a digital object identifier (10.6084/m9.figshare. 19897738).

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Funding

This work was supported in part by seed funds from the University of Minnesota Office of Clinical and Academic Affairs’ COVID-19 rapid response mechanism to H.M., M.M.R., D.D., M.D., Y.L., and H.L. H.M. and S.S. were supported in part by the Minnesota Drive Global Food Ventures (MnDRIVE GFV) Graduate Professional Development Program. H.M. was supported in part by the NIH T32 Virology Training Grant AI083196 and by the J.B. and J.N. Moe Graduate Fellowship. S.S. was supported in part by the S. Maheswaran Graduate Fellowship and by the B. Pomeroy Legacy Scholarship.