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SUBMITTER: Mihindukulasuriya KA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2346750 | biostudies-literature | 2008 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mihindukulasuriya Kathie A KA Wu Guang G St Leger Judy J Nordhausen Robert W RW Wang David D
Journal of virology 20080319 10
The emergence of viruses such as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus and Nipah virus has underscored the role of animal reservoirs in human disease and the need for reservoir surveillance. Here, we used a panviral DNA microarray to investigate the death of a captive beluga whale in an aquatic park. A highly divergent coronavirus, tentatively named coronavirus SW1, was identified in liver tissue from the deceased whale. Subsequently, the entire genome of SW1 was sequenced, yielding a ge ...[more]