Detection of coronaviruses in insectivorous bats of Fore-Caucasus, 2021

Abstract Coronaviruses (CoVs) pose a huge threat to public health as emerging viruses. Bat-borne CoVs are especially unpredictable in their evolution due to some unique features of bat physiology boosting the rate of mutations in CoVs, which is already high by itself compared to other viruses. Among...

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Main Authors: Igor V. Popov, Olesia V. Ohlopkova, Irina M. Donnik, Petr V. Zolotukhin, Alexander Umanets, Sergey N. Golovin, Aleksey V. Malinovkin, Anna A. Belanova, Pavel V. Lipilkin, Tatyana A. Lipilkina, Ilya V. Popov, Alexandr K. Logvinov, Nikita A. Dubovitsky, Kristina A. Stolbunova, Ivan A. Sobolev, Alexander Yu. Alekseev, Alexander M. Shestopalov, Valentina N. Burkova, Michael L. Chikindas, Koen Venema, Alexey M. Ermakov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-02-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-29099-6