Emerging Infectious Diseases (Dec 2008)

Detection and Phylogenetic Analysis of Group 1 Coronaviruses in South American Bats

  • Christine V.F. Carrington,
  • Jerome E. Foster,
  • Hua Chen Zhu,
  • Jin Xia Zhang,
  • Gavin J.D. Smith,
  • Nadin Thompson,
  • Albert J. Auguste,
  • Vernie Ramkissoon,
  • Abiodun A. Adesiyun,
  • Yi Guan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1412.080642
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 12
pp. 1890 – 1893

Abstract

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Bat coronaviruses (Bt-CoVs) are thought to be the precursors of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus. We detected Bt-CoVs in 2 bat species from Trinidad. Phylogenetic analysis of the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase gene and helicase confirmed them as group 1 coronaviruses.

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