Emerging Infectious Diseases (Mar 2005)

SARS-associated Coronavirus Transmitted from Human to Pig

  • Weijun Chen,
  • Minghua Yan,
  • Ling Yang,
  • Boliang Ding,
  • Bo He,
  • Yingzhen Wang,
  • Xiuli Liu,
  • Chenhui Liu,
  • Hui Zhu,
  • Bo You,
  • Shengyong Huang,
  • Jiangguo Zhang,
  • Feng Mu,
  • Zhao Xiang,
  • Xiaoli Feng,
  • Jie Wen,
  • Jianqiu Fang,
  • Jun Yu,
  • Huanming Yang,
  • Jian Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1103.040824
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 3
pp. 446 – 448

Abstract

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Severe acute respiratory syndrome–associatedcoronavirus (SARS-CoV) was isolated from a pig during a survey for possible routes of viral transmission after a SARS epidemic. Sequence and epidemiology analyses suggested that the pig was infected by a SARS-CoV of human origin.

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