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Receptor utilization of angiotensin‐converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) indicates a narrower host range of SARS‐CoV‐2 than that of SARS‐CoV
14 Aug 2020
Abstract excerpt
Coronavirus (CoV) pandemics have become a huge threat to the public health worldwide in the recent decades. Typically, severe acute respiratory syndrome CoV (SARS-CoV) caused SARS pandemic in 2003 and SARS-CoV-2 caused the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Both viruses are most likely originated from bats. Thus, direct or indirect inter-species transmission from bats to humans is required for the viruses to cause...
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