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Animal Coronaviruses and SARS-COV-2 in Animals, What Do We Actually Know?
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: Received: 31 December 2020 / Approved: 4 January 2021 / Online: 4 January 2021 (08:27:33 CET)
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Bonilauri, P.; Rugna, G. Animal Coronaviruses and SARS-COV-2 In Animals, What Do We Actually Know? Life 2021, 11, 123. Bonilauri, P.; Rugna, G. Animal Coronaviruses and SARS-COV-2 In Animals, What Do We Actually Know? Life 2021, 11, 123.
Abstract
Coronaviruses (CoVs) are a well-known group of viruses in veterinary medicine. We currently know four genera of Coronavirus, alfa, beta, gamma and delta. Wild, farmed and pet animals are infected with CoVs belonging to all four genera. Seven human respiratory coronaviruses have still been identified, four of which cause upper respiratory tract diseases, specifically, the common cold, and the last three that have emerged cause severe acute respiratory syndromes, SARS-CoV-1, MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2. In this review we briefly describe animal coronaviruses and what we actually know about SARS-CoV-2 infection in farm and domestic animals.
Keywords
SARS-CoV-2; animals; veterinary
Subject
Medicine and Pharmacology, Immunology and Allergy
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