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Lethal infection of K18-hACE2 mice infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus
Authors:McCray Paul B  Pewe Lecia  Wohlford-Lenane Christine  Hickey Melissa  Manzel Lori  Shi Lei  Netland Jason  Jia Hong Peng  Halabi Carmen  Sigmund Curt D  Meyerholz David K  Kirby Patricia  Look Dwight C  Perlman Stanley
Affiliation:Department of Pediatrics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA. Paul-McCray@uiowa.edu
Abstract:The severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), caused by a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV), resulted in substantial morbidity, mortality, and economic losses during the 2003 epidemic. While SARS-CoV infection has not recurred to a significant extent since 2003, it still remains a potential threat. Understanding of SARS and development of therapeutic approaches have been hampered by the absence of an animal model that mimics the human disease and is reproducible. Here we show that transgenic mice that express the SARS-CoV receptor (human angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 [hACE2]) in airway and other epithelia develop a rapidly lethal infection after intranasal inoculation with a human strain of the virus. Infection begins in airway epithelia, with subsequent alveolar involvement and extrapulmonary virus spread to the brain. Infection results in macrophage and lymphocyte infiltration in the lungs and upregulation of proinflammatory cytokines and chemokines in both the lung and the brain. This model of lethal infection with SARS-CoV should be useful for studies of pathogenesis and for the development of antiviral therapies.
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