KRT18 and infection: Therefore, we assessed the susceptibility of PNS sensory (trigeminal ganglia-TG, lumbosacral dorsal root ganglia-LS-DRG) and autonomic (superior cervical ganglia-SCG) neurons to infection with SARS-CoV-2 following intranasal inoculation of K18-hACE2 transgenic mice (hACE2 mice), wild-type C57BL/6J mice (WT), and golden Syrian hamsters.