Researchers from the Texas A&M School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences’ Veterinary Education, Research, and Outreach program have joined an international team studying how coronaviruses are spread and whether an individual’s microbiome might impact that transmission.
While the general public certainly is familiar with COVID-19, more broadly speaking, coronaviruses are a family of viruses that can cause various diseases in many species, from the common cold and severe acute respiratory syndrome in people to diarrhea in calves and respiratory disease in adult cattle.