Anthropogenic Infection of Cats during the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic

Viruses

Séverine Tasker¹  Katrin Hartmann²  Regina Hofmann-Lehmann³  Hans Lutz³  Sándor Belák⁴  Herman Egberink⁵  Tadeusz Frymus⁶  MariaGrazia Pennisi⁷  Fulvio Marsilio⁸  Albert Lloret⁹  Uwe Truyen^1,10  MargaretJ. Hosie^1,11  DianeD. Addie^1,12  Karin Möstl^1,13  Corine Boucraut-Baralon^1,14  Etienne Thiry^1,15 

[1] Bristol Veterinary School, University of Bristol, Bristol BS40 5DU, UK;Clinic of Small Animal Medicine, Centre for Clinical Veterinary Medicine, LMU Munich, 80539 Munich, Germany;Clinical Laboratory, Department of Clinical Diagnostics and Services, Center for Clinical Studies, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland;Department of Biomedical Sciences and Veterinary Public Health (BVF), Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Box 7036, 750 07 Uppsala, Sweden;Department of Biomolecular Health Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Utrecht, 3584 CL Utrecht, The Netherlands;Department of Small Animal Diseases with Clinic, Institute of Veterinary Medicine, Warsaw University of Life Sciences - SGGW, 02-787 Warsaw, Poland;Dipartimento di Scienze Veterinarie, Università di Messina, 98168 Messina, Italy;Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Università degli Studi di Teramo, 64100 Teramo, Italy;Fundació Hospital Clínic Veterinari, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, 08193 Barcelona, Spain;Institute of Animal Hygiene and Veterinary Public Health, University of Leipzig, 04103 Leipzig, Germany;MRC—University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Glasgow G61 1QH, UK;Maison Zabal, 64470 Etchebar, France;Retired from Institute of Virology, Department for Pathobiology, University of Veterinary Medicine, 1210 Vienna, Austria;Scanelis Laboratory, 31770 Colomiers, France;Veterinary Virology and Animal Viral Diseases, Department of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, FARAH Research Centre, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Liège University, B-4000 Liège, Belgium;

关键词: SARS-CoV-2;    COVID-19;    domestic cats;    wild felids;    companion animals;    minks;   

DOI  :  10.3390/v13020185

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

COVID-19 is a severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) caused by a new coronavirus (CoV), SARS-CoV-2, which is closely related to SARS-CoV that jumped the animal–human species barrier and caused a disease outbreak in 2003. SARS-CoV-2 is a betacoronavirus that was first described in 2019, unrelated to the commonly occurring feline coronavirus (FCoV) that is an alphacoronavirus associated with feline infectious peritonitis (FIP). SARS-CoV-2 is highly contagious and has spread globally within a few months, resulting in the current pandemic. Felids have been shown to be susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 infection. Particularly in the Western world, many people live in very close contact with their pet cats, and natural infections of cats in COVID-19-positive households have been described in several countries. In this review, the European Advisory Board on Cat Diseases (ABCD), a scientifically independent board of experts in feline medicine from 11 European Countries, discusses the current status of SARS-CoV infections in cats. The review examines the host range of SARS-CoV-2 and human-to-animal transmissions, including infections in domestic and non-domestic felids, as well as mink-to-human/-cat transmission. It summarises current data on SARS-CoV-2 prevalence in domestic cats and the results of experimental infections of cats and provides expert opinions on the clinical relevance and prevention of SARS-CoV-2 infection in cats.

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