Nature Communications (Sep 2020)

Ocular conjunctival inoculation of SARS-CoV-2 can cause mild COVID-19 in rhesus macaques

  • Wei Deng,
  • Linlin Bao,
  • Hong Gao,
  • Zhiguang Xiang,
  • Yajin Qu,
  • Zhiqi Song,
  • Shuran Gong,
  • Jiayi Liu,
  • Jiangning Liu,
  • Pin Yu,
  • Feifei Qi,
  • Yanfeng Xu,
  • Fengli Li,
  • Chong Xiao,
  • Qi Lv,
  • Jing Xue,
  • Qiang Wei,
  • Mingya Liu,
  • Guanpeng Wang,
  • Shunyi Wang,
  • Haisheng Yu,
  • Ting Chen,
  • Xing Liu,
  • Wenjie Zhao,
  • Yunlin Han,
  • Chuan Qin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18149-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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SARS-CoV-2 mainly transmits via respiratory droplets. Here Deng et al. show that SARS-CoV-2 can infect rhesus macaques via ocular conjunctival inoculation.