Article
Infection of equine bronchial epithelial cells with a SARS-CoV-2 pseudovirus
2023-01-27
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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the causal agent of COVID-19, can infect animals by binding to the angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2). Equine infection appears possible due to high homology (≈97%) between human and equine ACE2, evidence of in vitro infection in cell lines expressing equine ACE2, and evidence of seroconversion in horses after exposure to persons...
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- Literature Corpus work
- b1c25cc2-6c64-50b5-9baf-becd1d0a801b
- DOI
- 10.1101/2023.01.26.525770
