Bat Coronaviruses and Experimental Infection of Bats, the Philippines

Bat Coronaviruses and Experimental Infection of Bats, the Philippines

Fifty-two bats captured during July 2008 in the Philippines were tested by reverse transcription–PCR to detect bat coronavirus (CoV) RNA. The overall prevalence of virus RNA was 55.8%. We found 2 groups of sequences that belonged to group 1 (genus Alphacoronavirus) and group 2 (genus Betacoronavirus...

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Main Authors: Shumpei Watanabe, Joseph S. Masangkay, Noriyo Nagata, Shigeru Morikawa, Tetsuya Mizutani, Shuetsu Fukushi, Phillip Alviola, Tsutomu Omatsu, Naoya Ueda, Koichiro Iha, Satoshi Taniguchi, Hikaru Fujii, Shumpei Tsuda, Maiko Endoh, Kentaro Kato, Yukinobu Tohya, Shigeru Kyuwa, Yasuhiro Yoshikawa, Hiroomi Akashi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2010-08-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Bat coronavirus
severe acute respiratory syndrome
SARS
experimental infection
bats
coronavirus
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/16/8/10-0208_article

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https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/16/8/10-0208_article

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