Evaluation of the susceptibility of mice & hamsters to SARS-CoV-2 infection

Indian J Med Res. 2020 May;151(5):479-482. doi: 10.4103/ijmr.IJMR_2235_20.

Authors

Sreelekshmy Mohandas¹, Rajlaxmi Jain¹, Pragya D Yadav¹, Anita Shete-Aich¹, Prasad Sarkale¹, Manoj Kadam¹, Abhimanyu Kumar¹, Gururaj Deshpande², Shreekant Baradkar¹, Savita Patil¹, Gajanan Sapkal², Deepak Mali¹, Malvika Salve¹, Dilip Patil³, Triparna Majumdar¹, Annasaheb Suryawanshi¹, Himanshu Kaushal¹, Rajen Lakra¹, Hitesh Dighe¹, Nivedita Gupta⁴, Priya Abraham⁵, Raman R Gangakhedkar⁴

Affiliations

¹ Maximum Containment Laboratory, ICMR-National Institute of Virology, Pune 411 001, Maharashtra, India.
² Diagnostic Virology Group, ICMR-National Institute of Virology, Pune 411 001, Maharashtra, India.
³ Animal House, ICMR-National Institute of Virology, Pune 411 001, Maharashtra, India.
⁴ Division of Epidemiology & Communicable Diseases, Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi 110 029, India.
⁵ ICMR-National Institute of Virology, Pune 411 001, Maharashtra, India.

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Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Animals
Betacoronavirus / genetics
Betacoronavirus / immunology
Betacoronavirus / isolation & purification*
COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections / immunology
Coronavirus Infections / transmission
Coronavirus Infections / virology*
Cricetinae
Disease Models, Animal*
Disease Susceptibility*
Immunity, Humoral
Kidney / virology
Lung / virology
Mice
Mice, Inbred BALB C
Mice, Inbred C57BL
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral / immunology
Pneumonia, Viral / transmission
Pneumonia, Viral / virology*
RNA, Viral / analysis
SARS-CoV-2
Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus / immunology
Spleen / virology
Trachea / virology
Turbinates / virology
Viral Load

Substances

RNA, Viral