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SUBMITTER: Goller KV
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7086904 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Goller Katja V KV Fickel Jörns J Hofer Heribert H Beier Sandra S East Marion L ML
Archives of virology 20121205 4
Knowledge of coronaviruses in wild carnivores is limited. This report describes coronavirus genetic diversity, species specificity and infection prevalence in three wild African carnivores. Coronavirus RNA was recovered from fresh feces from spotted hyena and silver-backed jackal, but not bat-eared fox. Analysis of sequences of membrane (M) and spike (S) gene fragments revealed strains in the genus Alphacoronavirus, including three distinct strains in hyenas and one distinct strain in a jackal. ...[more]