The virus responsible for the pandemic that has affected 152 countries worldwide is a new strain of coronavirus (CoV), which belongs to a family of viruses widespread in many animal species, including birds, and mammals including humans. Indeed, CoVs are known in veterinary medicine affecting several species, and causing respiratory and/or enteric, systemic diseases and reproductive disease in poultry. Animal diseases caused by CoV may be considered from the following different perspectives: livestock and poultry CoVs cause mainly “population disease”; while in companion animals they are a source of mainly “individual/single subject disease”. Therefore, respiratory CoV diseases in high-density, large populations of livestock or poultry may be a suitable example for the current SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 pandemic. In this review we describe some strategies applied in veterinary medicine to control CoV and discuss if they may help to develop practical and useful strategies to control the SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 pandemic.
Airborne Coronaviruses : Observations from Veterinary Experience / P. Pozzi, A. Soggiu, L. Bonizzi, N. Elkin, A. Zecconi. - In: PATHOGENS. - ISSN 2076-0817. - 10:5(2021 May 19), pp. 628.1-628.12.
Titolo: | Airborne Coronaviruses : Observations from Veterinary Experience | |
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Parole Chiave: | coronavirus; SARS-COV-2/COVID-19; animals; airborne; diffusion; biosecurity; air filtration | |
Settore Scientifico Disciplinare: | Settore VET/05 - Malattie Infettive degli Animali Domestici | |
Data di pubblicazione: | 19-mag-2021 | |
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Tipologia: | Article (author) | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI): | http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pathogens10050628 | |
Appare nelle tipologie: | 01 - Articolo su periodico |
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