Publications by authors named "Angelica R Allegro"
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- Scientists studied how horse lung cells (EBECs) react to a fake version of the virus that causes COVID-19 compared to human lung cells (HBECs).
- They found that the horse cells had less of a protein called ACE2, which helps the virus enter cells, making them less likely to get infected.
- This suggests that horses probably won’t get COVID-19 easily, but it's still important to keep an eye on them if they're near people who are sick.
Rhodococcus equi is a soil saprophytic bacterium and intracellular pathogen that causes pneumonia in foals. Strains of R. equi that are virulent in foals contain a plasmid that encodes a virulence-associated protein A (VapA) necessary for replication in macrophages.
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