Rat Coronavirus & Sialoda Cryoadenitis Virus detection kits

Sialodacryoadenitis virus (SDAV), a coronavirus of rats s is a common, highly infectious, naturally occurring disease of rats that is characterized by self-limiting necrosis and inflammation of mixed or serous salivary glands, lacrimal glands, and upper respiratory mucous membranes. It is a coronavirus antigenically related to the mouse hepatitis virus (MHV), rat coronavirus (RCV), and the human coronavirus OC38. SDA is passed very quickly through the air, or by direct contact, when one rat comes in contact with another’s respiratory secretions. It can also be passed via fomites, meaning that you can handle an infected animal and then handle another, thereby passing it to the uninfected rat.