Alphacoronaviruses in New World bats: prevalence, persistence, phylogeny, and potential for interaction with humans.

Alphacoronaviruses in New World bats: prevalence, persistence, phylogeny, and potential for interaction with humans.

Bats are reservoirs for many different coronaviruses (CoVs) as well as many other important zoonotic viruses. We sampled feces and/or anal swabs of 1,044 insectivorous bats of 2 families and 17 species from 21 different locations within Colorado from 2007 to 2009. We detected alphacoronavirus RNA in...

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Main Authors: Christina Osborne, Paul M Cryan, Thomas J O'Shea, Lauren M Oko, Christina Ndaluka, Charles H Calisher, Andrew D Berglund, Mead L Klavetter, Richard A Bowen, Kathryn V Holmes, Samuel R Dominguez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-05-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3093381?pdf=render

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