Discovery of Bat Coronaviruses through Surveillance and Probe Capture-Based Next-Generation Sequencing

ABSTRACT Coronaviruses (CoVs) of bat origin have caused two pandemics in this century. Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-CoV and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS)-CoV both originated from bats, and it is highly likely that bat coronaviruses will cause future outbreaks. Active surveillan...

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Main Authors: Bei Li, Hao-Rui Si, Yan Zhu, Xing-Lou Yang, Danielle E. Anderson, Zheng-Li Shi, Lin-Fa Wang, Peng Zhou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2020-02-01
Series:mSphere
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Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSphere.00807-19