Significance Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, caused by the MERS coronavirus (MERS-CoV), continues to cause severe respiratory disease with a high case fatality rate.
E. de Wit +8 more
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SARS-CoV-2 infection protects against rechallenge in rhesus macaques
Immunity from reinfection One of the many open questions about severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection is whether an individual who has cleared the virus can be infected a second time and get sick. Chandrashekar et al.
A. Chandrashekar +52 more
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Comparison of rhesus and cynomolgus macaques as an infection model for COVID-19
A novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, has been identified as the causative agent of the current COVID-19 pandemic. Animal models, and in particular non-human primates, are essential to understand the pathogenesis of emerging diseases and to assess the safety ...
F. J. Salguero +63 more
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Clinical benefit of remdesivir in rhesus macaques infected with SARS-CoV-2
Effective therapies to treat coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are urgently needed. While many investigational, approved, and repurposed drugs have been suggested as potential treatments, preclinical data from animal models can guide the search for ...
Brandi N. Williamson +21 more
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Relationship between the ABO blood group and lung cancer susceptibility
Background: Lung cancer (LC) is one of the well-known fatal malignant neoplasms worldwide. Objective: The objective of this study was to determine the potential relationship between ABO and Rhesus blood groups with LC.
Zahir Salih Hussein
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Respiratory disease in rhesus macaques inoculated with SARS-CoV-2
An outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which is caused by a novel coronavirus (named SARS-CoV-2) and has a case fatality rate of approximately 2%, started in Wuhan (China) in December 20191,2.
V. Munster +16 more
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REGN-COV2 antibodies prevent and treat SARS-CoV-2 infection in rhesus macaques and hamsters
A beneficial cocktail Since the start of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, considerable effort has gone into generating and characterizing neutralizing antibodies that could be used as therapeutics.
A. Baum +35 more
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Primary exposure to SARS-CoV-2 protects against reinfection in rhesus macaques
Immunity from reinfection One of the many open questions about severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection is whether an individual who has cleared the virus can be infected a second time and get sick. Chandrashekar et al.
Wei Deng +26 more
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Prevalance of ABO and Rhesus Blood Groups in Blood Donors: A Study from a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital of Kumaon Region of Uttarakhand [PDF]
Backround: ABO and Rhesus (Rh) blood group antigens are hereditary characters and are useful in population genetic studies, in resolving medico-legal issues and more importantly for the immunologic safety of blood during transfusion. Aims: This study
Parul Garg +4 more
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The natural history of model organisms: the rhesus macaque as a success story of the Anthropocene.
Of all the non-human primate species studied by researchers, the rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) is likely the most widely used across biological disciplines.
Eve B. Cooper +8 more
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