{"id":7776,"date":"2020-06-24T12:44:57","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T19:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7776"},"modified":"2021-03-26T12:45:41","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T19:45:41","slug":"ace2-and-tmprss2-variation-in-savanna-monkeys-chlorocebus-spp-potential-risk-for-zoonotic-anthroponotic-transmission-of-sars-cov-2-and-a-potential-model-for-functional-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/24\/ace2-and-tmprss2-variation-in-savanna-monkeys-chlorocebus-spp-potential-risk-for-zoonotic-anthroponotic-transmission-of-sars-cov-2-and-a-potential-model-for-functional-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"ACE2 and TMPRSS2 Variation in Savanna Monkeys (Chlorocebus\u00a0Spp.): Potential Risk for Zoonotic\/Anthroponotic\u00a0Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and a Potential Model for Functional Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Schmitt et al. found genomic evidence that several species of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">avanna monkey\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Chlorocebus<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0spp<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">)\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">are likely as susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 infection as humans. These findings suggest the<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">y<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0may be a promising animal model for SARS-CoV-2 infection for vaccine and therapy development as well as the potential for bi-directional zoonotic transfer in savanna monkey populations. This may have further implications of epidemic control in communities with frequent human\/non-human primate interactions.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Schmitt et al. (June 23, 2020). ACE2 and TMPRSS2 Variation in Savanna Monkeys (<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Chlorocebus<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0Spp.): Potential Risk for Zoonotic\/<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Anthroponotic<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and a Potential Model for Functional Studies.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">PloS<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0One.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0235106\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0235106<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schmitt et al. found genomic evidence that several species of\u00a0savanna monkey\u00a0(Chlorocebus\u00a0spp.)\u00a0are likely as susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 infection as humans. These findings suggest they\u00a0may be a promising animal model for SARS-CoV-2 infection for vaccine and therapy development as well as the potential for bi-directional zoonotic transfer in savanna monkey populations. This may have further implications of&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/24\/ace2-and-tmprss2-variation-in-savanna-monkeys-chlorocebus-spp-potential-risk-for-zoonotic-anthroponotic-transmission-of-sars-cov-2-and-a-potential-model-for-functional-studies\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-7776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7777,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7776\/revisions\/7777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7776"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}