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Total virome characterizations of game animals in China reveals a spectrum of emerging viral pathogens
2021-11-12
Abstract excerpt
Game animals are wildlife species often traded and consumed as exotic food, and are potential reservoirs for SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2. We performed a meta-transcriptomic analysis of 1725 game animals, representing 16 species and five mammalian orders, sampled across China. From this we identified 71 mammalian viruses, with 45 described for the first time. Eighteen viruses were considered as potentially high risk to...
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- Literature Corpus work
- abbda478-f7f4-5086-bef4-6203970a1c4b
- DOI
- 10.1101/2021.11.10.467646
