A coronavirus detected in the vampire bat Desmodus rotundus

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 466-468

  Brandão, Paulo Eduardo ^a,b   Scheffer, Karin ^b,c   Villarreal, Laura Yaneth ^b,d   Achkar, Samira ^c   Oliveira, Rafael de Novaes ^b,c   Fahl, Willian de Oliveira ^b,c   Castilho, Juliana Galera ^b,c   Kotait, Ivanete ^b,c   Richtzenhain, Leonardo José ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Coronavirus Research Group ^*  (Brazil)

^c Instituto Pasteur de Sao Paulo   (Brazil)

^d Intervet Schering Plough   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Coronavirus; RNA dependent RNA polymerase; Vampire bat

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAT; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONAVIRUS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MURINE HEPATITIS CORONAVIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; SARS CORONAVIRUS; VIRUS CARRIER; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIROLOGY;

VIRUS RNA;

ANIMALS; BRAZIL; CHIROPTERA; CORONAVIRUS; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL;

EID: 65549135720     PISSN: 14138670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1413-86702008000600003     Document Type: Article

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