Interspecies transmission of coronaviruses and immunization: An Indian perspective

The milder form of infection and higher rates of recovery witnessed among COVID-19 patients in India is indicative of the potential intervention of other “unconventional” biological mechanisms. The recently established similarity between beta-coronavirus strains in animals and humans led us to hypot...

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Autores principales: Rao, Vishal, Kannan, Swetha, Arakeri, Gururaj, Subhash, Anand, Batra, H. V., Kumar, Jitendra, Gulia, Ashish
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8219005/
http://dx.doi.org/10.25259/IJMS_191_2020
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author Rao, Vishal
Kannan, Swetha
Arakeri, Gururaj
Subhash, Anand
Batra, H. V.
Kumar, Jitendra
Gulia, Ashish
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description The milder form of infection and higher rates of recovery witnessed among COVID-19 patients in India is indicative of the potential intervention of other “unconventional” biological mechanisms. The recently established similarity between beta-coronavirus strains in animals and humans led us to hypothesize that previous contact with infected dogs or cattle could shield humans from the circulating SARS-CoV-2 virus. We further believe that our hypothesis, if confirmed by further studies, could be used as a potential vaccine strategy.
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spelling pubmed-82190052021-06-24 Interspecies transmission of coronaviruses and immunization: An Indian perspective Rao, Vishal Kannan, Swetha Arakeri, Gururaj Subhash, Anand Batra, H. V. Kumar, Jitendra Gulia, Ashish Indian J Med Sci Viewpoint The milder form of infection and higher rates of recovery witnessed among COVID-19 patients in India is indicative of the potential intervention of other “unconventional” biological mechanisms. The recently established similarity between beta-coronavirus strains in animals and humans led us to hypothesize that previous contact with infected dogs or cattle could shield humans from the circulating SARS-CoV-2 virus. We further believe that our hypothesis, if confirmed by further studies, could be used as a potential vaccine strategy. Scientific Scholar 2020-12-31 /pmc/articles/PMC8219005/ http://dx.doi.org/10.25259/IJMS_191_2020 Text en © 2020 Published by Scientific Scholar on behalf of Indian Journal of Medical Sciences https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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