Isolation of a Novel Recombinant Canine Coronavirus from a Visitor to Haiti: Further Evidence of Transmission of Coronaviruses of Zoonotic Origin to Humans.
John A LednickyMassimiliano S TagliamonteSarah K WhiteGabriela M BlohmMd Mahbubul AlamNicole M IovineMarco SalemiCarla MavianJohn Glenn MorrisPublished in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2021)
We isolated a novel coronavirus from a medical team member presenting with fever and malaise after travel to Haiti. The virus showed 99.4% similarity with a recombinant canine coronavirus recently identified in a pneumonia patient in Malaysia, suggesting that infection with this virus and/or recombinant variants occurs in multiple locations.