Nature Communications (Aug 2022)

A strategy to assess spillover risk of bat SARS-related coronaviruses in Southeast Asia

  • Cecilia A. Sánchez,
  • Hongying Li,
  • Kendra L. Phelps,
  • Carlos Zambrana-Torrelio,
  • Lin-Fa Wang,
  • Peng Zhou,
  • Zheng-Li Shi,
  • Kevin J. Olival,
  • Peter Daszak

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31860-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Coronaviruses may spill over from bats to humans. This study uses epidemiological data, species distribution models, and probabilistic risk assessment to map overlap among people and SARSr-CoV bat hosts and estimate how many people are infected with bat-origin SARSr-CoVs in Southeast Asia annually.