| Title |
Detection and characterization of diverse alpha- and betacoronaviruses from bats in China
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Virologica Sinica, February 2016
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| DOI | 10.1007/s12250-016-3727-3 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Lin Xu, Fuqiang Zhang, Weihong Yang, Tinglei Jiang, Guanjun Lu, Biao He, Xingyu Li, Tingsong Hu, Gang Chen, Yun Feng, Yuzhen Zhang, Quanshui Fan, Jiang Feng, Hailin Zhang, Changchun Tu |
| Abstract |
Bats have been implicated as important reservoir hosts of alpha- and betacoronaviruses. In this study, diverse coronaviruses (CoVs) were detected in 50 of 951 (positive rate 5.3%) intestinal specimens of eight bat species collected in four provinces and the Tibet Autonomous Region of China by pan-coronavirus RT-PCR screening. Based on 400-nt RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRP) sequence analysis, eight belonged to genus Alphacoronavirus and 42 to Betacoronavirus. Among the 50 positive specimens, thirteen gave rise to CoV full-length RdRP gene amplification for further sequence comparison, of which three divergent sequences (two from a unreported province) were subjected to full genome sequencing. Two complete genomes of betacoronaviruses (JTMC15 and JPDB144) and one nearly-complete genome of alphacoronavirus (JTAC2) were sequenced and their genomic organization predicted. The present study has identified additional numbers of genetically diverse bat-borne coronaviruses with a wide distribution in China. Two new species of bat CoV, identified through sequence comparison and phylogenetic analysis, are proposed. |
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| Australia | 1 | 10% |
| Unknown | 6 | 60% |
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| Researcher | 11 | 17% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 9 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 8 | 12% |
| Student > Master | 7 | 11% |
| Other | 4 | 6% |
| Other | 12 | 18% |
| Unknown | 14 | 22% |
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| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 16 | 25% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 11 | 17% |
| Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine | 7 | 11% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 4 | 6% |
| Environmental Science | 3 | 5% |
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