Close relative of human Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus in bat, South Africa

Emerg Infect Dis. 2013 Oct;19(10):1697-9. doi: 10.3201/eid1910.130946.

Authors

Ndapewa Laudika Ithete, Samantha Stoffberg, Victor Max Corman, Veronika M Cottontail, Leigh Rosanne Richards, M Corrie Schoeman, Christian Drosten, Jan Felix Drexler, Wolfgang Preiser

No abstract available

Keywords: Bats; Coronavirus; MERS-CoV; Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus; South Africa; viruses; zoonoses.

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Animals
Bayes Theorem
Chiroptera / virology*
Coronavirus / genetics*
Coronavirus / isolation & purification
Disease Reservoirs
Evolution, Molecular
Female
Humans
Molecular Typing
Phylogeny
RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase / genetics
Sequence Analysis, DNA
Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
South Africa
Spike Glycoprotein, Coronavirus / genetics

Substances

Spike Glycoprotein, Coronavirus
RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase