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Susceptibility of ferrets, cats, dogs, and other domesticated animals to SARS–coronavirus 2

Author(s) -

Jianzhong Shi,

Zhiyuan Wen,

Gongxun Zhong,

Huanliang Yang,

Chong Wang,

Baoying Huang,

Renqiang Liu,

Xijun He,

Lei Shuai,

Ziruo Sun,

Yubo Zhao,

Peipei Liu,

Libin Liang,

Pengfei Cui,

Jinliang Wang,

Xianfeng Zhang,

Yuntao Guan,

Wenjie Tan,

Guizhen Wu,

Hualan Chen,

Zhigao Bu

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 12.556

H-Index - 1186

eISSN - 1095-9203

pISSN - 0036-8075

DOI - 10.1126/science.abb7015

Subject(s) - cats , coronavirus , pandemic , virology , covid-19 , biology , transmission (telecommunications) , domestication , outbreak , disease , virus , veterinary medicine , infectious disease (medical specialty) , medicine , pathology , ecology , electrical engineering , engineering

Alternative hosts and model animals The severe acute respiratory syndrome–coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic may have originated in bats, but how it made its way into humans is unknown. Because of its zoonotic origins, SARS-CoV-2 is unlikely to exclusively infect humans, so it would be valuable to have an animal model for drug and vaccine development. Shi et al. tested ferrets, as well as livestock and companion animals of humans, for their susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 (see the Perspective by Lakdawala and Menachery). The authors found that SARS-CoV-2 infects the upper respiratory tracts of ferrets but is poorly transmissible between individuals. In cats, the virus replicated in the nose and throat and caused inflammatory pathology deeper in the respiratory tract, and airborne transmission did occur between pairs of cats. Dogs appeared not to support viral replication well and had low susceptibility to the virus, and pigs, chickens, and ducks were not susceptible to SARS-CoV-2. Science , this issue p. 1016; see also p. 942

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