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SUBMITTER: Huynh J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3497669 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Huynh Jeremy J Li Shimena S Yount Boyd B Smith Alexander A Sturges Leslie L Olsen John C JC Nagel Juliet J Johnson Joshua B JB Agnihothram Sudhakar S Gates J Edward JE Frieman Matthew B MB Baric Ralph S RS Donaldson Eric F EF
Journal of virology 20120919 23
The relationship between bats and coronaviruses (CoVs) has received considerable attention since the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-like CoV was identified in the Chinese horseshoe bat (Rhinolophidae) in 2005. Since then, several bats throughout the world have been shown to shed CoV sequences, and presumably CoVs, in the feces; however, no bat CoVs have been isolated from nature. Moreover, there are very few bat cell lines or reagents available for investigating CoV replication in bat ...[more]