September 23, 2020

Humoral Response to SARS-CoV-2 by Healthy and Sick Dogs during COVID-19 Pandemic in Spain

Category: Article Summary

Topic: Transmission

Keywords (Tags): animals, transmission

• [Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] SARS-CoV-2 was not found in samples tested by RT-PCR from dogs presenting with pneumonia (n=40) nor among healthy dogs living in households with a COVID-19 case (n=20) in Spain (April to June 2020). Antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 were identified in 1 of 17 (6%) sick dogs that did not come from a COVID-19 household and 5 out of 20 (25%) health dogs living in households with a COVID-19 case.

Perise-Barrios et al. (Sept 22, 2020). Humoral Response to SARS-CoV-2 by Healthy and Sick Dogs during COVID-19 Pandemic in Spain. Pre-print downloaded Sept 23 from https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.09.22.308023