Novel SARS-like betacoronaviruses in bats, China, 2011

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 989-991

  Yang, Li ^a,b   Wu, Zhiqiang ^a,b   Ren, Xianwen ^a,b   Yang, Fan ^a,b   He, Guimei ^c   Zhang, Junpeng ^c   Dong, Jie ^a,b   Sun, Lilian ^a,b   Zhu, Yafang ^a,b   Du, Jiang ^a,b   Zhang, Shuyi ^c   Jin, Qi ^a,b  

^a BEIJING HOSPITAL   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PATHOGEN BIOLOGY   (China)

^c EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAT; CHINA; GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; METAGENOME; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RDRP GENE; SARS CORONAVIRUS; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; THROAT CULTURE; VIRUS PURIFICATION;

BATS; CHINA; CHIROPTERA; CORONAVIRUS; SARS VIRUS; VIRUSES;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; CORONAVIRUS; GENES, VIRAL; GENOME, VIRAL; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84878003368     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1906.121648     Document Type: Article

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