First reported cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection in owned dogs in Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Abstract

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was described as an RNA virus of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in human beings (Zhu and others, 2020), and detected in different animal species worldwide, including dogs, cats, wild felids, minks, and nonhuman primates .