Resumen

COLINA, Santiago Emanuel et al. El tercer gran salto: los coronavirus animales en América Latina. Analecta vet. [online]. 2021, vol.41, n.2, e059. ISSN 1514-2590.  http://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.24215/15142590e059.

A 120 nm viral particle has completely modified what happens in a 12,000 km diameter planet. The first epidemics caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronavirus and the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) coronaviruses, alerted to the potential for inter-species transmission. However, it was not until coronaviruses´ third big leap with the new SARS-CoV-2 pandemic that the the entire scientific community focused on them. There are several interspecies jumps reported in veterinary medicine that are nothing more than different coronaviruses attempts to perfect their transmission and potentially reach more than 7 billion hosts in which they can replicate. This article describes morphological and genetic characteristics of coronaviruses, their particular replication mechanism and how it influences their dissemination. In addition, clinical signs, lesions, antigenic variants and vaccination control of the main coronaviruses associated with different animal species are described, with a special emphasis on reports in Latin America.

Palabras clave : Coronavirus; Veterinary medicine; Latin America; SARS-CoV-2.

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