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Susceptibility of livestock and companion animals to COVID‐19
Author(s) -
Sreenivasan Chithra C.,
Thomas Milton,
Wang Dan,
Li Feng
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of medical virology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.782
H-Index - 121
eISSN - 1096-9071
pISSN - 0146-6615
DOI - 10.1002/jmv.26621
Subject(s) - livestock , virology , coronavirus , covid-19 , biology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , immunology , veterinary medicine , outbreak , disease , medicine , ecology
While the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) continues to wreak havoc, there is little known about the susceptibility of the livestock and companion animals relative to humans. Here, we explore the susceptibility of companion and agricultural animals, in light of the existing information on natural infections, experimental infections, serosurveillance, and in vitro protein‐homology binding interaction studies of the SARS‐CoV‐2 with the proposed receptor angiotensin‐converting enzyme 2 from diverse animal species.