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Review
. 2021 Mar;93(3):1351-1360.
doi: 10.1002/jmv.26621. Epub 2020 Nov 10.

Susceptibility of livestock and companion animals to COVID-19

Chithra C Sreenivasan  1 , Milton Thomas  2 , Dan Wang  1 , Feng Li  1
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Susceptibility of livestock and companion animals to COVID-19

Chithra C Sreenivasan et al. J Med Virol. 2021 Mar.

Abstract

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.

Keywords: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; animals; companion; livestock; pets; reverse zoonosis; susceptibility; transmission; zoonosis.

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