Table 3.
Target tissues for coronavirus infections
| Virus | Intestine | Respiratory tract |
Lymphoid tissue |
Nervous system | Liver | Kidney | Salivary/ lacrimal gland | Gonad |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bovine coronavirus | x | x | ||||||
| Canine coronavirus | x | x | ||||||
| Feline enteric coronavirus, feline infectious peritonitis virus | x | x | x | |||||
| Human coronaviruses (229E, HKU1, NL63, OC43) | x | |||||||
| Infectious bronchitis virus | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||
| Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus | x | |||||||
| Mouse hepatitis virus | x | x | x | x | x | |||
| Porcine deltacoronavirus | x | |||||||
| Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus | x | |||||||
| Porcine hemagglutinating encephalomyelitis virus | x | x | x | |||||
| Porcine respiratory coronavirus | x | |||||||
| Rat coronavirus | x | x | x | |||||
| Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus | x | |||||||
| Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 | x | |||||||
| Swine enteric alphacoronavirus | x | |||||||
| Transmissible gastroenteritis virus | x |