A Coronavirus Detected in the Vampire Bat Desmodus Rotundus

Overview

Journal Braz J Infect Dis

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2009 Mar 17

PMID 19287830

Citations 29

Authors

Paulo Eduardo Brandao

Karin Scheffer

Laura Yaneth Villarreal

Samira Achkar

Rafael De Novaes Oliveira

Willian de Oliveira Fahl

Juliana Galera Castilho

Ivanete Kotait

Leonardo Jose Richtzenhain

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Abstract

This article reports on the identification of a group 2 coronavirus (BatCoV DR/2007) in a Desmodus rotundus vampire bat in Brazil. Phylogenetic analysis of ORF1b revealed that BatCoV DR/2007 originates from a unique lineage in the archetypical group 2 coronaviruses, as described for bat species elsewhere with putative importance in Public Health.

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