Fixed several instances detection COVID-19 in dogs in different countries. Scientists have studied the possibility of infection of animals from infected hosts.
according to the journal Nature, researchers from Australia and China under the leadership of Malik Peiris from the University of Hong Kong, took samples from 15 dogs, whose owners were hospitalized with coronavirus.
the animals Themselves are insulated. In the analyses of the two of them found the RNA of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. It was a seventeen-year-old Spitz, the owner of which was put in the hospital, and all members of her family were sent to quarantine. The dog took swabs. In the analyses from my nose detected the RNA of SARS-CoV-2, to allocate the whole virus into the culture failed because of a weak viral load.
two days after returning home Spitz died. Scientists suggest that the cause of death was the side the disease that he had before the illness of the owner.
a young German shepherd tested positive for the virus was tests the day after the identification of its owner. Viral RNA detected in smears from the nose and mouth, and the anus of the dog. But the other dogs who lived in the same house, all the tests were normal.
For the duration of the quarantine, the animals showed no symptoms of infection, and in serum of their blood found antibodies to the SARS-CoV-2, except the dog, which had not been infected.
the Sequence of the viral genome in dogs (who have identified RNA coronavirus) and their owners were the same. Still, the researchers explain that existing data is still insufficient to conclude whether the virus spread from dog to another dog or from her to the man. But, in their opinion, since this is precisely known, need to do a test for infection, not only the people surrounding the patient, but also his Pets. And isolate them to determine the result.
