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Editor, Senior Moderator
Viruses
. 2021 Apr 14;13(4):673.
doi: 10.3390/v13040673.
Household Cases Suggest That Cats Belonging to Owners with COVID-19 Have a Limited Role in Virus Transmission
Pierre Bessi?re[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Maxime Fusade-Boyer[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Mathilda Walch[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Laetitia L?bre[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Jessie Brun[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Guillaume Croville[SUP] 1 [/SUP], S?verine Boullier[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Marie-Christine Cadiergues[SUP] 2 4 [/SUP], Jean-Luc Gu?rin[SUP] 1 [/SUP]
Affiliations
Abstract
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is responsible for COVID-19 and spread rapidly following its emergence in Wuhan in 2019. Although cats are, among other domestic animals, susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 infection, little is known about their epidemiological role in the dynamics of a household infection. In this study, we monitored five cats for viral shedding daily. Each cat was confined with its COVID-19 positive owners in separate households. Low loads of viral nucleic acid were found in two cats, but only one developed anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies, which suggests that cats have a limited role in COVID-19 epidemiology.
Keywords: COVID-19; cats; reverse-zoonosis.
. 2021 Apr 14;13(4):673.
doi: 10.3390/v13040673.
Household Cases Suggest That Cats Belonging to Owners with COVID-19 Have a Limited Role in Virus Transmission
Pierre Bessi?re[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Maxime Fusade-Boyer[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Mathilda Walch[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Laetitia L?bre[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Jessie Brun[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Guillaume Croville[SUP] 1 [/SUP], S?verine Boullier[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Marie-Christine Cadiergues[SUP] 2 4 [/SUP], Jean-Luc Gu?rin[SUP] 1 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 33919936
- DOI: 10.3390/v13040673
Abstract
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is responsible for COVID-19 and spread rapidly following its emergence in Wuhan in 2019. Although cats are, among other domestic animals, susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 infection, little is known about their epidemiological role in the dynamics of a household infection. In this study, we monitored five cats for viral shedding daily. Each cat was confined with its COVID-19 positive owners in separate households. Low loads of viral nucleic acid were found in two cats, but only one developed anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies, which suggests that cats have a limited role in COVID-19 epidemiology.
Keywords: COVID-19; cats; reverse-zoonosis.