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author Corman, Victor Max
Rasche, Andrea
Diallo, Thierno Diawo
Cottontail, Veronika M.
Stöcker, Andreas
Souza, Breno Frederico De Carvalho Dominguez
Corrêa, Jefferson Ivan
Carneiro, Aroldo José Borges
Franke, Carlos Roberto
Nagy, Martina
Metz, Markus
Knörnschild, Mirjam
Kalko, Elisabeth K. V.
Ghanem, Simon J.
Morales, Karen D. Sibaja
Salsamendi, Egoitz
Spínola, Manuel
Herrler, Georg
Voigt, Christian C.
Tschapka, Marco
Drosten, Christian
Drexler, Jan Felix
author_facet Corman, Victor Max
Rasche, Andrea
Diallo, Thierno Diawo
Cottontail, Veronika M.
Stöcker, Andreas
Souza, Breno Frederico De Carvalho Dominguez
Corrêa, Jefferson Ivan
Carneiro, Aroldo José Borges
Franke, Carlos Roberto
Nagy, Martina
Metz, Markus
Knörnschild, Mirjam
Kalko, Elisabeth K. V.
Ghanem, Simon J.
Morales, Karen D. Sibaja
Salsamendi, Egoitz
Spínola, Manuel
Herrler, Georg
Voigt, Christian C.
Tschapka, Marco
Drosten, Christian
Drexler, Jan Felix
contents (Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Bats host a broad diversity of coronaviruses (CoVs), including close relatives of human pathogens. There is only limited data on neotropical bat CoVs. We analysed faecal, blood and intestine specimens from 1562 bats sampled in Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador and Brazil for CoVs by broad-range PCR. CoV RNA was detected in 50 bats representing nine different species, both frugivorous and insectivorous. These bat CoVs were unrelated to known human or animal pathogens, indicating an absence of recent zoonotic spill-over events. Based on RNA-dependent RNA polymerase ( RdRp )-based grouping units (RGUs) as a surrogate for CoV species identification, the 50 viruses represented five different alphacoronavirus RGUs and two betacoronavirus RGUs. Closely related alphacoronaviruses were detected in Carollia perspicillata and C. brevicauda across a geographical distance exceeding 5600 km. Our study expands the knowledge on CoV diversity in neotropical bats and emphasizes the association of distinct CoVs and bat host genera.
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spellingShingle Highly diversified coronaviruses in neotropical bats
Corman, Victor Max
Rasche, Andrea
Diallo, Thierno Diawo
Cottontail, Veronika M.
Stöcker, Andreas
Souza, Breno Frederico De Carvalho Dominguez
Corrêa, Jefferson Ivan
Carneiro, Aroldo José Borges
Franke, Carlos Roberto
Nagy, Martina
Metz, Markus
Knörnschild, Mirjam
Kalko, Elisabeth K. V.
Ghanem, Simon J.
Morales, Karen D. Sibaja
Salsamendi, Egoitz
Spínola, Manuel
Herrler, Georg
Voigt, Christian C.
Tschapka, Marco
Drosten, Christian
Drexler, Jan Felix
Americas
Animals
Blood
Chiroptera
Cluster Analysis
Coronavirus
Feces
Genetic Variation
Intestines
Molecular Sequence Data
Phylogeography
RNA Replicase
RNA, Viral
Sequence Analysis, DNA
Biodiversity
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Chordata
Animalia
bats
bat
(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Bats host a broad diversity of coronaviruses (CoVs), including close relatives of human pathogens. There is only limited data on neotropical bat CoVs. We analysed faecal, blood and intestine specimens from 1562 bats sampled in Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador and Brazil for CoVs by broad-range PCR. CoV RNA was detected in 50 bats representing nine different species, both frugivorous and insectivorous. These bat CoVs were unrelated to known human or animal pathogens, indicating an absence of recent zoonotic spill-over events. Based on RNA-dependent RNA polymerase ( RdRp )-based grouping units (RGUs) as a surrogate for CoV species identification, the 50 viruses represented five different alphacoronavirus RGUs and two betacoronavirus RGUs. Closely related alphacoronaviruses were detected in Carollia perspicillata and C. brevicauda across a geographical distance exceeding 5600 km. Our study expands the knowledge on CoV diversity in neotropical bats and emphasizes the association of distinct CoVs and bat host genera.
title Highly diversified coronaviruses in neotropical bats
topic Americas
Animals
Blood
Chiroptera
Cluster Analysis
Coronavirus
Feces
Genetic Variation
Intestines
Molecular Sequence Data
Phylogeography
RNA Replicase
RNA, Viral
Sequence Analysis, DNA
Biodiversity
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Chordata
Animalia
bats
bat
url https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14820418