Scientists Evaluate Primate Models of SARS-CoV-2 Infection
Scientists Evaluate Primate Models of SARS-CoV-2 Infection by Angela Mohan on February 5, 2021 at 11:30 AM Nonhuman primate species may be useful for testing coronavirus vaccines and therapies in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which has resulted in over 104 million cases and more than 2 million deaths worldwide in the past year, as per the study in PLOS ONE. Recent studies suggest that aerosol transmission may be the most prevalent route of human exposure to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Until now, however, the African green monkey was the only nonhuman ...
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