The SARS-CoV-2 Reproduction Number R 0 in Cats.

Item request has been placed!

Item request cannot be made.

Processing Request

اقرأ على الانترنت اقرأ أكثر حفظ في قائمتي

المؤلفون: Gonzales, Jose L.¹ (AUTHOR) ; de Jong, Mart C. M.² (AUTHOR) ; Gerhards, Nora M.¹ (AUTHOR); Van der Poel, Wim H. M.^2,3 (AUTHOR)
المصدر:
Viruses (1999-4915). Dec2021, Vol. 13 Issue 12, p2480-2480. 1p.
الموضوع:
*SARS-CoV-2; *VIRUS diseases; *DATA transmission systems; *FELIDAE; *CATS; *RISK perception

معلومة اضافية
- نبذة مختصرة :
  Domestic cats are susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 virus infection and given that they are in close contact with people, assessing the potential risk cats represent for the transmission and maintenance of SARS-CoV-2 is important. Assessing this risk implies quantifying transmission from humans-to-cats, from cats-to-cats and from cats-to-humans. Here we quantified the risk of cat-to-cat transmission by reviewing published literature describing transmission either experimentally or under natural conditions in infected households. Data from these studies were collated to quantify the SARS-CoV-2 reproduction number R0 among cats. The estimated R0 was significantly higher than one, hence cats could play a role in the transmission and maintenance of SARS-CoV-2. Questions that remain to be addressed are the risk of transmission from humans-to-cats and cats-to-humans. Further data on household transmission and data on virus levels in both the environment around infected cats and their exhaled air could be a step towards assessing these risks [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]