| sars-cov-2 infection, neuropathogenesis and transmission among deer mice: implications for spillback to new world rodents. | coronavirus disease-19 (covid-19) emerged in late 2019 in china and rapidly became pandemic. as with other coronaviruses, a preponderance of evidence suggests the virus originated in horseshoe bats (rhinolophus spp.) and may have infected an intermediate host prior to spillover into humans. a significant concern is that sars-cov-2 could become established in secondary reservoir hosts outside of asia. to assess this potential, we challenged deer mice (peromyscus maniculatus) with sars-cov-2 and f ... | 2021 | 34010360 |