ReviewVeterinary research communications2021
Bats, pangolins, minks and other animals - villains or victims of SARS-CoV-2?
Review in Veterinary research communications, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
33 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- SARS-CoV-2 natural infection in animals: a systematic review of studies and case reports and series.The veterinary quarterly · 2021Pooled it
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- Serological Evidence of Exposure to Eurasian-Lineage HPAI H5N1 Clade 2.3.4.4b in Wild Mammals in Ohio, USA, 2024-2025.Viruses · 2025Article
- The ACE2 Receptor from Common Vampire Bat (Viruses · 2025Article
- Wildlife Pathogens and Zoonotic Disease Risk Assessment in Vietnam: A Wildlife Trade Hotspot.Transboundary and emerging diseases · 2025Review
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- Demonstration of SARS-CoV-2 Exposure in Korean Native Cattle and Korean Native Black Goats in Korea.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Development of a Multispecies Double-Antigen Sandwich ELISA Using N and RBD Proteins to Detect Antibodies against SARS-CoV-2.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- SARS-CoV-2 prevalence in domestic and wildlife animals: A genomic and docking based structural comprehensive review.Heliyon · 2023Review
- Cervids ACE2 Residues that Bind the Spike Protein can Provide Susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2.EcoHealth · 2023Article
- Re-Emerging COVID-19: Controversy of Its Zoonotic Origin, Risks of Severity of Reinfection and Management.International journal of general medicine · 2023Review
- Evidence of Exposure to SARS-CoV-2 in Dogs and Cats from Households and Animal Shelters in Korea.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- Multi-species outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant in a zoological institution, with the detection in two new families of carnivores.Transboundary and emerging diseases · 2022Article
- SARS-CoV-2 in a Mink Farm in Italy: Case Description, Molecular and Serological Diagnosis by Comparing Different Tests.Viruses · 2022Article
- Reverse-zoonotic transmission of SARS-CoV-2 lineage alpha (B.1.1.7) to great apes and exotic felids in a zoo in the Czech Republic.Archives of virology · 2022Article
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- First evidence of human-to-dog transmission of SARS-CoV-2 B.1.160 variant in France.Transboundary and emerging diseases · 2022Article
- Experimental and natural infections of severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus 2 in pets and wild and farm animals.Veterinary world · 2022Review
- Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on food production and animal health.Trends in food science & technology · 2022Review
- Diversity of Coronaviruses with Particular Attention to the Interspecies Transmission of SARS-CoV-2.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Review
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Abstract
Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) is caused by the severe acute Respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), which has become unstoppable, spreading rapidly worldwide and, consequently, reaching a pandemic level. This review aims to provide the information available so far on the likely animal origin of SARS-CoV-2 and its possible hosts/reservoirs as well as all natural animal infections and experimental evidence using animal models. Horseshoe bats from the species Rhinolophus affinis seem to be a natural reservoir and pangolins (Manis javanica) appear to be an intermediate host of SARS-CoV-2. Humans remain the most likely spreading source of SARS-CoV-2 to other humans and also to domestic, zoo and farm animals. Indeed, human-to-animal transmission has been reported in cats, dogs, tigers, lions, a puma and minks. Animal-to-human transmission is not a sustained pathway, although mink-to-human transmission remains to be elucidated. Through experimental infections, other animals seem also to be susceptible hosts for SARS-CoV-2, namely ferrets, some non-human primate species, hamsters and transgenic mice, while dogs, pigs and poultry are resistant. A One Health perspective must be implemented in order to develop epidemiological surveillance and establish disease control mechanisms to limit zoonotic transmission. Moreover, research in this field is important to better understand SARS-CoV-2 and to obtain the long-awaited vaccine and specific treatment.
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