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Cell restriction factors, and not receptor compatibility, block Jamaican fruit bat (Artibeus jamaicensis) susceptibility to mucosal inoculation with SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant
2024-01-19
Abstract excerpt
The ancestral sarbecovirus giving rise to SARS-CoV-2 is posited to have originated in bats. While SARS-CoV-2 causes asymptomatic to severe respiratory disease in humans, little is known about the biology, virus tropism, and immunity of SARS-CoV-2-like sarbecoviruses in bats. SARS-CoV-2 has been shown to infect multiple mammalian species, including various rodent species, non-human primates, and Egyptian fruit bats...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 421e20d2-5eb8-5084-9b29-86fcbf0cbb3c
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3871236/v1
