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Coronavirus Spike Protein and Tropism Changes.
Advances in virus research - 1 Jan 2016
Hulswit R J G, de Haan C A M, Bosch B-J
Abstract excerpt
Coronaviruses (CoVs) have a remarkable potential to change tropism. This is particularly illustrated over the last 15 years by the emergence of two zoonotic CoVs, the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)- and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS)-CoV. Due to their inherent genetic variability, it is inevitable that new cross-species transmission events of these enveloped, positive-stranded RNA viruses will...
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