Susceptibility of livestock and companion animals to COVID‐19
Chithra Sreenivasan, Milton Thomas, Dan Wang, Feng Li
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.
Topics & Concepts
LivestockVirologyCoronavirusCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)BiologySevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)2019-20 coronavirus outbreakInfectious disease (medical specialty)ImmunologyVeterinary medicineOutbreakDiseaseMedicineInternal medicineEcologySARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 ResearchAnimal Virus Infections StudiesViral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology