Mers-related betacoronavirus in vespertilio superans bats, China

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1260-1262

  Yang, Li ^a,b   Wu, Zhi Qiang ^a,b   Ren, Xian Wen ^b   Yang, Fan ^b   Zhang, Jun Peng ^c   He, Gui Mei ^c   Dong, Jie ^b   Sun, Li Lian ^b   Zhu, Ya Fang ^b   Zhang, Shu Yi ^b,c   Jin, Qi ^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

VIRUS SPIKE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BAT; BETACORONAVIRUS; CHINA; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN; LETTER; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VESPERTILIO SUPERANS; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; CORONAVIRUS; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; CHINA; CHIROPTERA; CORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; GENOME, VIRAL; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84902767699     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2007.140318     Document Type: Letter

References (10)

1. MERS-CoV-Eastern Mediterranean. ProMED-mail 2014 Apr 16 [cited 2014 Apr 16]. http://www.promedmail.org/, archive no. 20140416.2406647.
2. Meyer B, Muller MA, Corman VM, Reusken CB, Ritz D, Godeke GJ, et al. Antibodies against MERS coronavirusin dromedary camels, United Arab Emirates, 2003 and 2013.Emerg Infect Dis. 2014;20:552-9. http://dx.doi. org/10.3201/eid2004.131746
3. Hemida MG, Chu DKW, Poon LLM, Perera RAPM, Alhammadi MA, Ng HY, et al. MERS coronavirus in dromedary camel herd, Saudi Arabia. Emerg Infect Dis. [Epub ahead of print]. 2014 Jul [cited 2014 Apr 19]. http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2007.140571
4. Corman VM, Kallies R, Philipps H, Gopner G, Muller MA, Eckerle I, et al. Characterization of a novel betacoronavirus related to middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus in European hedgehogs. J Virol. 2014;88:717-24. http://dx. doi.org/10.1128/JVI.01600-13
5. De Benedictis P, Marciano S, Scaravelli D, Priori P, Zecchin B, Capua I, et al. Alpha and lineage C betaCoV infections in Italian bats. Virus Genes. 2014;48:366-71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11262-013- 1008-x
6. Annan A, Baldwin HJ, Corman VM, Klose SM, Owusu M, Nkrumah EE, et al. Human betacoronavirus 2c EMC/2012- related viruses in bats, Ghana and Europe. Emerg Infect Dis. 2013;19:456-9. http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1903.121503
7. Memish ZA, Mishra N, Olival KJ, Fagbo SF, Kapoor V, Epstein JH, et al. Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus in bats, Saudi Arabia. Emerg Infect Dis. 2013;19:1819-23. http:// dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1911.131172
8. Wacharapluesadee S, Sintunawa C, Kaewpom T, Khongnomnan K, Olival KJ, Epstein JH, et al. Group C betacoronavirus in bat guano fertilizer, Thailand. Emerg Infect Dis. 2013;19:1349-51. http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1908.130119
9. Wu Z, Ren X, Yang L, Hu Y, Yang J, He G, et al. Virome analysis for identification of novel mammalian viruses in bat species from Chinese provinces. J Virol. 2012;86:10999-1012. http:// dx.doi.org/10.1128/JVI.01394-12
10. Perlman S, Netland J. Coronaviruses post-SARS: update on replication and pathogenesis. Nat Rev Microbiol. 2009;7:439-50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ nrmicro2147