With respect to viruses from the Coronaviridae family, the Ifnar–/– mutation was found instead to prevent the lethal pneumonia observed in SARS-CoV mice (Channappanavar et al., 2016), whereas the absence of the human CD26 (a.k.a. DPP4) receptor for Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) means that Ifnar–/– mice must be first transduced with a human adenovirus serotype 5-vector expressing human CD26 in order to become transiently susceptible to MERS-CoV infection via the IN route (Zhao et al., 2014). This evidence concerns the gene IFNAR1 and pneumonia.