1. Comparison of rhesus and cynomolgus macaques as an infection model for COVID-19
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Francisco J. Salguero, Andrew D. White, Gillian S. Slack, Susan A. Fotheringham, Kevin R. Bewley, Karen E. Gooch, Stephanie Longet, Holly E. Humphries, Robert J. Watson, Laura Hunter, Kathryn A. Ryan, Yper Hall, Laura Sibley, Charlotte Sarfas, Lauren Allen, Marilyn Aram, Emily Brunt, Phillip Brown, Karen R. Buttigieg, Breeze E. Cavell, Rebecca Cobb, Naomi S. Coombes, Alistair Darby, Owen Daykin-Pont, Michael J. Elmore, Isabel Garcia-Dorival, Konstantinos Gkolfinos, Kerry J. Godwin, Jade Gouriet, Rachel Halkerston, Debbie J. Harris, Thomas Hender, Catherine M. K. Ho, Chelsea L. Kennard, Daniel Knott, Stephanie Leung, Vanessa Lucas, Adam Mabbutt, Alexandra L. Morrison, Charlotte Nelson, Didier Ngabo, Jemma Paterson, Elizabeth J. Penn, Steve Pullan, Irene Taylor, Tom Tipton, Stephen Thomas, Julia A. Tree, Carrie Turner, Edith Vamos, Nadina Wand, Nathan R. Wiblin, Sue Charlton, Xiaofeng Dong, Bassam Hallis, Geoffrey Pearson, Emma L. Rayner, Andrew G. Nicholson, Simon G. Funnell, Julian A. Hiscox, Mike J. Dennis, Fergus V. Gleeson, Sally Sharpe, and Miles W. Carroll
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Science - Abstract
Non-human primates are important animal models for studying SARS-CoV-2 infection. Here, Salguero et al. directly compare rhesus and cynomolgus macaques and show that both species represent COVID-19 disease of mild clinical cases, and provide a lung histopathology scoring system.
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- 2021
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