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This is weird. > the cheetahs, but developed no overt symptoms [6]. Also, experimental transmission of the Aju-CoV to three domestic kittens failed to cause di
by mkagenius 7y ago
This is weird.
> the cheetahs, but developed no overt symptoms [6]. Also, experimental transmission of the Aju-CoV to three domestic kittens
failed to cause disease [6]. Perhaps also relevant is that when the human SARS-CoV was
induced in domestic cats, they developed no symptoms
1. https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(04)00143-5.pdf https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(04)00143...
- Amygaz 7y agoI also find this weirdly dubious, but not impossible. I do know that to study human coronavirus in mice, we had to create a mouse line expressing the human ACE2 protein. I just did a quick protein alignment and the %sequence identity between human and select animals are: Bats: 81.5% Mice: 81.9% Dogs: 84.1% Cats: 85.2%