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Close Relative of Human Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus in Bat, South Africa
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The severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak of 2002–03 and the subsequent implication of bats as reservoir hosts of the causative agent, a coronavirus (CoV), prompted numerous studies of bats and the viruses they harbor. A novel clade 2c betacoronavirus, termed Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS)–CoV, was recently identified as the causative agent of a severe respiratory disease that is mainly affecting humans on the Arabian Peninsula (1). Extending on previous work (2), we described European Pipistrellus bat–derived CoVs that are closely related to MERS-CoV (3). We now report the identification of a South Africa bat derived CoV that has an even closer phylogenetic relationship with MERS-CoV.
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- Ithete, N. L., Stoffberg, S., Corman, V. M., Cottontail, V. M., Richards, L. R., Schoeman, M. C., Drosten, C., Drexler, J. F., & Preiser, W.
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- Emerging Infectious Diseases
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- 2013-10
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- 19
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 1697-1699
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- 1080-6040 (ISSN-L)
- 1080-6059
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- W2131369206
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- 31.19
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- journal article
- Language
- en
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