Anthropogenic Infection of Cats during the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic.

Animals; COVID-19/epidemiology/transmission/veterinary/virology; Cats/virology; Coronavirus/classification/isolation & purification/pathogenicity; Host Specificity; Humans; Mink/virology; Prevalence; SARS-CoV-2/classification/isolation & purification/pathogenicity; Zoonoses/epidemiology/prevention & control/virology; COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; companion animals; domestic cats; experimental infection; human-to-feline transmission; minks; one health; wild felids

Abstract :

[en] 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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Veterinary medicine & animal health

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Hosie, Margaret J.

Hofmann-Lehmann, Regina

Hartmann, Katrin

Egberink, Herman

Truyen, Uwe

Addie, Diane D.

Belák, Sándor

Boucraut-Baralon, Corine

Frymus, Tadeusz

Lloret, Albert

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English

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Anthropogenic Infection of Cats during the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic.

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2021

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Viruses

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1999-4915

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Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), Switzerland

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