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Editorial
. 2022 Dec 12;11(12):1519.
doi: 10.3390/pathogens11121519.

SARS-CoV-2 and Animals: From a Mirror Image to a Storm Warning

Francesco Pellegrini  1 , Ahmed Hassan Omar  1 , Canio Buonavoglia  1 , Annamaria Pratelli  1
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Editorial

SARS-CoV-2 and Animals: From a Mirror Image to a Storm Warning

Francesco Pellegrini et al. Pathogens. .

Abstract

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), emerged in Wuhan city (Hubei province, China) in December 2019, and the World Health Organization (WHO) declared an international public health emergency on 11 March 2020 [...].

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