Concerns on the Emerging Research of SARS-CoV-2 on Felines: Could They be significant Hosts/Reservoirs?

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D. Katterine Bonilla-Aldana^1,2, Julian Ruiz-Saenz³, Marlen Martinez-Gutierrez³, Ruchi Tiwari⁴, Kuldeep Dhama⁵, Javier A. Jaimes⁶ and
Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales^2,7

¹Incubator in Zoonosis (SIZOO), Biodiversity and Ecosystem Conservation Research Group (BIOECOS), Fundacion Universitaria Autonoma de las Americas, Sede Pereira, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia.

²Public Health and Infection Research Group and Incubator, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Tecnologica de Pereira, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia.

³Grupo de Investigacion en Ciencias Animales, Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia, Bucaramanga, Santander, Colombia.

⁴Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Immunology, College of Veterinary Sciences, Uttar Pradesh Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Pashu Chikitsa Vigyan Vishwavidyalaya Evam Go Anusandhan Sansthan (DUVASU), Mathura, India –281001, India.

⁵Division of Pathology, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Bareilly- 243 122, Uttar Pradesh, India.

⁶Department of Microbiology & Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.

⁷Grupo de Investigacion Biomedicina, Faculty of Medicine, Fundacion Universitaria Autonoma de las Americas, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia.

J Pure Appl Microbiol. 2020;14(suppl 1):703-708 | Article Number: 6238

https://doi.org/10.22207/JPAM.14.SPL1.04 | © The Author(s). 2020

Received: 20/04/2020 | Accepted: 28/04/2020 | Published: 01/05/2020

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Abstract

With the growing evidence of cases and studies showing natural and experimental infection due to SARS-CoV-2 in felines, including cats, lion, and tigers, there is also an increasing concern about its susceptibility and their role in urban cycles of SARS-CoV-2 transmission, initially from humans-to-animals, but with uncertainty about reverse transmission. In this review, we addressed the evidence around this situation.

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SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, Animals, Feline, Anthropozoonotic, Pandemic

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