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Coronavirus Cryptic Landscape and Draft Genome of a Novel CoV Clade Related to MERS From Bats Circulating in Northeastern Brazil.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Jan 2025
Silvério Bruna Stefanie, Guilardi Mariana Dias, Martins Junior Olímpio, Duro Rodrigo Lopes Sanz, de Sousa Larissa Leão F, Cabral-Miranda Gustavo, Janini Luiz Mário Ramos, Poon Leo L M, Durães-Carvalho Ricardo
Abstract excerpt
We identified seven distinct coronaviruses (CoVs) in bats from Brazil, classified into 229E-related (Alpha-CoV), Nobecovirus, Sarbecovirus, and Merbecovirus (Beta-CoV), including one closely related to MERS-like CoV with 82.8% genome coverage. To accomplish this, we screened 423 oral and rectal swabs from 16 different bat species using molecular assays, RNA sequencing, and evolutionary analysis. Notably, gaps in...
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- Chiroptera
- Animals
- Brazil
- Genome, Viral
- Phylogeny
- Spike Glycoprotein, Coronavirus
