Communications Biology (Mar 2022)

The SARS-CoV-2 Alpha variant exhibits comparable fitness to the D614G strain in a Syrian hamster model

  • Maxime Cochin,
  • Léa Luciani,
  • Franck Touret,
  • Jean-Sélim Driouich,
  • Paul-Rémi Petit,
  • Grégory Moureau,
  • Cécile Baronti,
  • Caroline Laprie,
  • Laurence Thirion,
  • Piet Maes,
  • Robbert Boudewijns,
  • Johan Neyts,
  • Xavier de Lamballerie,
  • Antoine Nougairède

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03171-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The SARS-CoV-2 Alpha variant exhibits similar transmission dynamics to an ancestral D614G variant in a Syrian hamster model, suggesting the limitations of using the hamster as the sole model to assess differences between SARS-CoV-2 strains.