Susceptibility of pigs and chickens to SARS coronavirus.(SARS Origins)

From: Emerging Infectious Diseases | Date: February 1, 2004| Author: Andonova, Maya; Copps, John; Czub, Markus; Drebot, Michael A.; Gren, Jason; Kitching, Paul; Marszal, Peter; Pasick, John; Smith, Greg; Weingartl, Hana M. | Copyright information

An outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in humans, associated with a new coronavirus, was reported in Southeast Asia, Europe, and North America in early 2003. To address speculations that the virus originated in domesticated animals, or that domestic species were susceptible to the virus, we inoculated 6-week-old pigs and chickens intravenously, intranasally, ocularly, and orally with 106 PFU of SARS-associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV). Clinical signs did not develop ...

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