JAMAICAN FRUIT BAT (ARTIBEUS JAMAICENSIS) INSUSCEPTIBILITY TO MUCOSAL INOCULATION WITH SARS-COV-2 DELTA VARIANT IS NOT CAUSED BY RECEPTOR COMPATIBILITY

Jamaican fruit bat (Artibeus jamaicensis) insusceptibility to mucosal inoculation with SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant is not caused by receptor compatibility

Abstract The ancestral sarbecovirus giving Stock Saddle Girths rise to SARS-CoV-2 is posited to have originated in bats.While SARS-CoV-2 causes asymptomatic to severe respiratory disease in humans, little is known about the biology, virus tropism, and immunity of SARS-CoV-2-like sarbecoviruses in bats.SARS-CoV-2 has been shown to infect multiple ma

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