Human betacoronavirus 2c EMC/2012-related viruses in bats, Ghana and Europe

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 456-459

  Annan, Augustina ^a   Baldwin, Heather J ^b,c   Corman, Victor Max ^d   Klose, Stefan M ^c   Owusu, Michael ^a   Nkrumah, Evans Ewald ^e   Badu, Ebenezer Kofi ^e   Anti, Priscilla ^e   Agbenyega, Olivia ^f   Meyer, Benjamin ^d   Oppong, Samuel ^f   Sarkodie, Yaw Adu ^f   Kalko, Elisabeth K V ^c   Lina, Peter H C ^g   Godlevska, Elena V ^h   Reusken, Chantal ⁱ   Seebens, Antje ^j   Gloza Rausch, Florian ^d,k   Vallo, Peter ^c   Tschapka, Marco ^c   Drosten, Christian ^d   Drexler, Jan Felix ^d   more..

^a KUMASI CENTRE FOR COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH IN TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Ghana)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^e KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

^f SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^g NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^h SCHMALHAUSEN INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (Ukraine)

ⁱ Netherlands Center for Infectious Disease Control   (Netherlands)

^j Noctalis   (Germany)

^k INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAT; BETACORONAVIRUS 2C EMC; CORONAVIRUS; EUROPE; FECES ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GHANA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME;

AFRICA; BATS; CORONAVIRUS; COV-EMC; EUROPE; GHANA; HUMAN BETACORONAVIRUS; VIRUSES;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CHIROPTERA; CORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; EUROPE; FECES; FEMALE; GENES, VIRAL; GHANA; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR TYPING; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84874096089     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1903.121503     Document Type: Article

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