Domestication of wild animals may provide a springboard for rapid variation of coronavirus.
Open Life Sci
; 16(1): 252-254, 2021.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1158781
ABSTRACT
Coronaviruses have spread widely among humans and other animals, but not all coronaviruses carried by specific animals can directly infect other kinds of animals. Viruses from most animal hosts need an intermediate host before they can spread widely among humans. Under natural conditions, coronaviruses do not rapidly change from infecting wild animals as intermediate hosts and to spreading widely among humans. The intermediate host might be the animals captured or bred for the purpose of cross-breeding with domesticated species for improvement of the breed. These animals differ from wild animals at the environmental and genetic levels. It is an important direction to study the semi-wild animals domesticated by humans in search for intermediate hosts of viruses widely spread among humans.
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Randomized controlled trials
Language:
English
Journal:
Open Life Sci
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Biol-2021-0027
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