Importance of the pig as a human biomedical model

JK Lunney, A Van Goor, KE Walker… - Science translational …, 2021 - science.org
Pigs have substantial potential as biomedical models for studying human developmental
processes, congenital diseases, and pathogen response mechanisms in addition to utility as …

Impact of age, sex, comorbidities and clinical symptoms on the severity of COVID-19 cases: A meta-analysis with 55 studies and 10014 cases

MA Barek, MA Aziz, MS Islam - Heliyon, 2020 - cell.com
Purpose Severe acute respiratory coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) cases are overgrowing
globally and now become a pandemic. A meta-analysis was conducted to evaluate the …

Evidence of exposure to SARS-CoV-2 in cats and dogs from households in Italy

EI Patterson, G Elia, A Grassi, A Giordano… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
SARS-CoV-2 emerged from animals and is now easily transmitted between people.
Sporadic detection of natural cases in animals alongside successful experimental infections …

Animal welfare and livestock supply chain sustainability under the COVID-19 outbreak: An overview

NM Hashem, A González-Bulnes… - Frontiers in veterinary …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the emergence of a new strain of coronavirus (SARS-
CoV-2) around the end of December 2019, has caused a worldwide public health …

SARS-CoV-2 and oral manifestation: an observational, human study

B Sinjari, D D'Ardes, M Santilli, I Rexhepi… - Journal of clinical …, 2020 - mdpi.com
The correlation between SARS-CoV-2 and oral manifestations is still controversial. The aim
of this observational study was to determine the oral manifestation of the hospitalized …

SARS-CoV-2 vaccine development: current status

GA Poland, IG Ovsyannikova, SN Crooke… - Mayo Clinic …, 2020 - Elsevier
In the midst of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 pandemic and its
attendant morbidity and mortality, safe and efficacious vaccines are needed that induce …

Coronavirus infections in companion animals: virology, epidemiology, clinical and pathologic features

C Haake, S Cook, N Pusterla, B Murphy - Viruses, 2020 - mdpi.com
Coronaviruses are enveloped RNA viruses capable of causing respiratory, enteric, or
systemic diseases in a variety of mammalian hosts that vary in clinical severity from …

On the relationships between COVID-19 and extended urbanization

C Connolly, SH Ali, R Keil - Dialogues in human geography, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
This commentary focuses on the relationship between extensive forms of urbanization and
emerging infectious disease, using empirical examples from the COVID-19 pandemic …

Assessing the risks of SARS-CoV-2 in wildlife

RJ Delahay, J de la Fuente, GC Smith, K Sharun… - One health outlook, 2021 - Springer
The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 likely emerged from a wildlife source with transmission
to humans followed by rapid geographic spread throughout the globe and severe impacts …

Utilizing drug repurposing against COVID-19–efficacy, limitations, and challenges

V Parvathaneni, V Gupta - Life sciences, 2020 - Elsevier
The recent outbreak of Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), first in Eastern Asia and then
essentially across the world has been declared a pandemic by the WHO. COVID-19 is …