Coronaviruses roadmap:
Control Strategies
Roadmap for the development of disease control strategies for coronaviruses
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Latent/carrier
Latent/carrier
Research Question
- Identification of latent/carrier hosts, with a particular focus on wildlife and pets
Research Gaps and Challenges
- Resistant and persistently-infected animals can influence coronavirus containment. Understanding and addressing this will require longitudinal and lifetime studies which are expensive to conduct
- Emergence of drug-resistant isolates makes it difficult to identify infectious strains
Solution Routes
- Long-term studies, especially in wildlife and pets
Dependencies
- Availability of funding and appropriate resource to conduct long-term studies
Projects
What activities are planned or underway?
Differential susceptibility of SARS-CoV-2 in animals : Evidence of ACE2 host receptor distribution in companion animals, livestock and wildlife by immunohistochemical characterisation
Planned Completion date 26/07/2021
Participating Country(s):
Netherlands
Veterinary Biocontained facility Network for excellence in animal infectiology research and experimentation
Planned Completion date 28/02/2023
Participating Country(s):
Europe