id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-304232-c0cpx2q3 Opriessnig, Tanja Update on possible animal sources for COVID‐19 in humans 2020-06-17 .txt text/plain 988 75 54 7 In support of these early results, an ongoing study conducted at the Friedrich Loeffler Institute in Germany further confirmed that pigs and chickens are not susceptible to intranasal infection with SARS-CoV-2 (https://prome dmail.org/prome d-post/?id=7196506). 7 Natural infection, as evidenced by the presence of antibodies, SARS-CoV-2 RNA or both, has been identified in selected dogs in close contact with COVID-19 patients (Table 3) . A recent French study, which investigated nine cats and 12 dogs in close contact with a cluster of COVID-19 patients, was unable to detect evidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in any of the animals. Moreover, animal-to-human SARS-CoV-2 infection as well as natural animal-to-animal transmission has yet to be confirmed and none of the species considered to be susceptible to the virus at this point are presently used for xenotransplantation. Susceptibility of ferrets, cats, dogs, and other domesticated animals to SARS-coronavirus 2 ./cache/cord-304232-c0cpx2q3.txt ./txt/cord-304232-c0cpx2q3.txt