A coronavirus detected in the vampire bat Desmodus rotundus

A coronavirus detected in the vampire bat Desmodus rotundus

This article reports on the identification of a group 2 coronavirus (BatCoV DR/2007) in a Desmodus rotundus vampire bat in Brazil. Phylogenetic analysis of ORF1b revealed that BatCoV DR/2007 originates from a unique lineage in the archetypical group 2 coronaviruses, as described for bat species else...

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Main Authors: Paulo Eduardo Brandão, Karin Scheffer, Laura Yaneth Villarreal, Samira Achkar, Rafael de Novaes Oliveira, Willian de Oliveira Fahl, Juliana Galera Castilho, Ivanete Kotait, Leonardo José Richtzenhain
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier
Series:Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Coronavirus
Vampire bat
RNA-dependent
RNA-polymerase
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