Emerging Infectious Diseases (Sep 2017)

A New Bat-HKU2–like Coronavirus in Swine, China, 2017

  • Lang Gong,
  • Jie Li,
  • Qingfeng Zhou,
  • Zhichao Xu,
  • Li Chen,
  • Yun Zhang,
  • Chunyi Xue,
  • Zhifen Wen,
  • Yongchang Cao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2309.170915
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 23, no. 9
pp. 1607 – 1609

Abstract

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We identified from suckling piglets with diarrhea in China a new bat-HKU2–like porcine coronavirus (porcine enteric alphacoronavirus). The GDS04 strain of this coronavirus shares high aa identities (>90%) with the reported bat-HKU2 strains in Coronaviridae-wide conserved domains, suggesting that the GDS04 strain belongs to the same species as HKU2.

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