Household Cases Suggest That Cats Belonging to Owners with COVID-19 Have a Limited Role in Virus Transmission

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is responsible for COVID-19 and spread rapidly following its emergence in Wuhan in 2019. Although cats are, among other domestic animals, susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 infection, little is known about their epidemiological role in the dynamics...

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Autores principales: Bessière, Pierre, Fusade-Boyer, Maxime, Walch, Mathilda, Lèbre, Laetitia, Brun, Jessie, Croville, Guillaume, Boullier, Séverine, Cadiergues, Marie-Christine, Guérin, Jean-Luc
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8070925/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33919936
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v13040673
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Sumario:Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is responsible for COVID-19 and spread rapidly following its emergence in Wuhan in 2019. Although cats are, among other domestic animals, susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 infection, little is known about their epidemiological role in the dynamics of a household infection. In this study, we monitored five cats for viral shedding daily. Each cat was confined with its COVID-19 positive owners in separate households. Low loads of viral nucleic acid were found in two cats, but only one developed anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies, which suggests that cats have a limited role in COVID-19 epidemiology.

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