Publications by authors named "Karolina Gackowska"
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- In June 2023, Poland experienced a deadly disease outbreak affecting cats, with a majority of tested cases (29 out of 47) showing positivity for the HPAI H5N1 virus.
- Genetic analysis indicated that the virus belonged to clade 2.3.4.4b and had mutations that suggested it adapted to mammalian hosts.
- Testing of food samples from households with infected cats found the HPAI H5N1 virus in one poultry meat sample, hinting at possible infection routes.
Routine genomic surveillance on samples from COVID-19 patients collected in Poland during summer 2021 revealed the emergence of a SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant with a large 872 nt deletion. This change, confirmed by Sanger and deep sequencing, causes complete loss of , , and genes. The index case carrying the deletion is unknown.
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