Bats Are Natural Reservoirs of SARS-like Coronaviruses
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: (Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) emerged in 2002-3 in southern China. The origin of its etiological agent, the SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV), remains elusive. Here we report that species of bats are a natural host of coronaviruses closely related to those responsible for the SARS outbreak. These viruses, termed SARS-like coronaviruses (SL-CoV), display greater genetic variation than SARS-CoV isolated from humans or civets. The human and civet isolates of SARS-CoV nestle phylogenetically within the spectrum of SL-CoVs, indicating that the virus responsible for the SARS outbreak was a member of this coronavirus group.
Authors: Li, Wendong, Shi, Zhengli, Yu, Meng, Ren, Wuze, Smith, Craig, Epstein, Jonathan H, Wang, Hanzhong, Crameri, Gary, Hu, Zhihong, Zhang, Huajun, Zhang, Jianhong, McEachern, Jennifer, Field, Hume, Daszak, Peter, Eaton, Bryan T, Zhang, Shuyi, Wang, Lin-Fa
Language: English
Subfield: Infectious Diseases
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6911535829
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