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Phylogenetic perspectives on the epidemiology and origins of SARS and SARS-like coronaviruses.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Dec 2009
Yip Chi Wai, Hon Chung Chau, Shi Mang, Lam Tommy Tsan-Yuk, Chow Ken Yan-Ching, Zeng Fanya, Leung Frederick Chi-Ching
Abstract excerpt
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) is a respiratory disease caused by a zoonotic coronavirus (CoV) named SARS-CoV (SCoV), which rapidly swept the globe after its emergence in rural China during late 2002. The origins of SCoV have been mysterious and controversial, until the recent discovery of SARS-like CoV (SLCoV) in bats and the proposal of bats as the natural reservior of the Coronaviridae family. In...
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