Year: 2025
Type: conference-abstract
Abstract: Lithuania ranks among the ten countries worldwide with established mink farming industries.In 2020, over 1.2 million minks were bred across 57 farms in Lithuania.On November 24, 2020, SARS-CoV-2 infection in minks was detected for the first time in a farm in the Jonava region.Subsequently, nationwide surveillance was conducted across all mink farms in Lithuania.Samples from dead and apparently healthy minks were collected in 15 mink farms located in 12 Lithuanian districts.Genomic sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 strains from these samples was performed to assess viral variants circulating in Lithuanian mink farms and their distribution across various geographic locations.Full-length virus genome sequencing was performed in Illumina MiSeq Sequencer.The genomes were assembled using the Illumina BaseSpace software DRAGEN COVID Lineage.The Fasta format of whole genome sequences was used for clade and lineage assignment using online tools: Nextclade and GISAD.
Source: Book of Abstracts
Author: Paulius Kibiša
Language: English
Subfield: Infectious Diseases
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4410567446