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Predicting susceptibility for SARS-CoV-2 infection in domestic and wildlife animals using ACE2 protein sequence homology.
Zoo biology - 1 Jan 2021
Kumar Ashutosh, Pandey Sada N, Pareek Vikas, Narayan Ravi K, Faiq Muneeb A, Kumari Chiman
Abstract excerpt
The article is presenting a bioinformatics based method predicting susceptibility for SARS-CoV-2 infection in domestic and wildlife animals. Recently, there were reports of cats and ferrets, dogs, minks, golden hamster, rhesus monkeys, tigers, and lions testing for SARS-CoV-2 RNA which indicated for the possible interspecies viral transmission. Our method successfully predicted the susceptibility of these animals...
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