SARS-CoV-2 infection, neuropathogenesis and transmission among deer mice: Implications for spillback to New World rodents.

Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) emerged in late 2019 in China and rapidly became pandemic. As with other coronaviruses, a preponderance of evidence suggests the virus originated in horseshoe bats (Rhinolophus spp.) and may have infected an intermediate host prior to spillover into humans. A signif...

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Main Authors: Anna Fagre, Juliette Lewis, Miles Eckley, Shijun Zhan, Savannah M Rocha, Nicole R Sexton, Bradly Burke, Brian Geiss, Olve Peersen, Todd Bass, Rebekah Kading, Joel Rovnak, Gregory D Ebel, Ronald B Tjalkens, Tawfik Aboellail, Tony Schountz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-05-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1009585