MailOnline. To do this, they infected various types of synthetic cell with the swine coronavirus and monitored how the virus replicated and spread.The researchers found that a wide range of mammalian cells — including primary human lung and intestinal cells — are susceptible to SADS-CoV infection.The team discovered that unlike SARS-CoV-2, swine coronavirus is capable of replicating faster in intestinal cells, rather than in the lungs.So as far as SADS-CoV is concerned, humans do not have the cross-protective herd immunity that can prevent us from contracting coronaviruses from animal populations.Paper author and public health expert Caitlin Edwards, also of the University of North Carolina, said: "SADS-CoV is derived from bat coronaviruses.
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