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Can ACE2 Receptor Polymorphism Predict Species Susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2?
Frontiers in public health - 1 Jan 2000
Devaux Christian A, Pinault Lucile, Osman Ikram Omar, Raoult Didier
Abstract excerpt
A novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, emerged in China in December 2019 and spread worldwide, causing more than 1.3 million deaths in 11 months. Similar to the human SARS-CoV, SARS-CoV-2 shares strong sequence homologies with a sarbecovirus circulating in Rhinolophus affinis bats. Because bats are expected to be able to transmit their coronaviruses to intermediate animal hosts that in...
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