Assertion: civet cat | /r/HasProperty | intermediate host
Facets:
value: for the sars-cov virus
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: Those earlier studies of a different, but related, coronavirus led to findings that civet cats (a species distinct from domestic cats) may have been an intermediate host for the SARS-CoV virus; domestic cats and ferrets could be experimentally infected with the SARS-CoV virus and transmit it to naïve cats or ferrets, respectively, under experimental conditions; and a very few cats (< 10) and one dog belonging to owners with SARS that lived in a large apartment complex in Hong Kong with an extremely high number of human SARS cases tested positive for the SARS-CoV virus.