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. 2020 May;151(5):479-482.
doi: 10.4103/ijmr.IJMR_2235_20.

Evaluation of the susceptibility of mice & hamsters to SARS-CoV-2 infection

Sreelekshmy Mohandas  1 , Rajlaxmi Jain  1 , Pragya D Yadav  1 , Anita Shete-Aich  1 , Prasad Sarkale  1 , Manoj Kadam  1 , Abhimanyu Kumar  1 , Gururaj Deshpande  2 , Shreekant Baradkar  1 , Savita Patil  1 , Gajanan Sapkal  2 , Deepak Mali  1 , Malvika Salve  1 , Dilip Patil  3 , Triparna Majumdar  1 , Annasaheb Suryawanshi  1 , Himanshu Kaushal  1 , Rajen Lakra  1 , Hitesh Dighe  1 , Nivedita Gupta  4 , Priya Abraham  5 , Raman R Gangakhedkar  4
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Evaluation of the susceptibility of mice & hamsters to SARS-CoV-2 infection

Sreelekshmy Mohandas et al. Indian J Med Res. 2020 May.
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Fig. 1
Percentage weight gain/loss (mean ± standard deviation) at day 2 (n=18), day 4 (n=15), day 6 (n= 12), day 8 (n=9), day 12 (n=6), day 16 (n=3), day 20 (n=3) of hamsters following intranasal SARS-CoV-2 virus inoculation and control hamsters (n=3).
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Fig. 2
SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA copy number (mean ± standard deviation, n=3) in the nasal turbinates, trachea, lungs, nasal wash and oropharyngeal swabs of hamsters.
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Fig. 3
Anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG levels (Positive/Negative value in direct ELISA) and neutralizing antibody titre (mean ± standard deviation, n=3) in hamsters post virus inoculation.
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