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Coronaviruses in Bats: A Review for the Americas
The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is the focus of attention as it has caused more than three million human deaths globally. This and other coronaviruses, such as MERS-CoV, have been suggested to be related to coronaviruses that are hosted in bats. This work shows, through a bibliographic review, the freque...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8310043/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34201926 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v13071226 |
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author | Hernández-Aguilar, Itandehui Lorenzo, Consuelo Santos-Moreno, Antonio Naranjo, Eduardo J. Navarrete-Gutiérrez, Darío |
author_facet | Hernández-Aguilar, Itandehui Lorenzo, Consuelo Santos-Moreno, Antonio Naranjo, Eduardo J. Navarrete-Gutiérrez, Darío |
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description | The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is the focus of attention as it has caused more than three million human deaths globally. This and other coronaviruses, such as MERS-CoV, have been suggested to be related to coronaviruses that are hosted in bats. This work shows, through a bibliographic review, the frequency of detection of coronavirus in bats species of the Americas. The presence of coronavirus in bats has been examined in 25 investigations in 11 countries of the Americas between 2007 and 2020. Coronaviruses have been explored in 9371 individuals from 160 species of bats, and 187 coronavirus sequences have been deposited in GenBank distributed in 43 species of bats. While 91% of the coronaviruses sequences identified infect a single species of bat, the remainder show a change of host, dominating the intragenera change. So far, only Mex-CoV-6 is related to MERS-CoV, a coronavirus pathogenic for humans, so further coronavirus research effort in yet unexplored bat species is warranted. |
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spelling | pubmed-83100432021-07-25 Coronaviruses in Bats: A Review for the Americas Hernández-Aguilar, Itandehui Lorenzo, Consuelo Santos-Moreno, Antonio Naranjo, Eduardo J. Navarrete-Gutiérrez, Darío Viruses Review The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is the focus of attention as it has caused more than three million human deaths globally. This and other coronaviruses, such as MERS-CoV, have been suggested to be related to coronaviruses that are hosted in bats. This work shows, through a bibliographic review, the frequency of detection of coronavirus in bats species of the Americas. The presence of coronavirus in bats has been examined in 25 investigations in 11 countries of the Americas between 2007 and 2020. Coronaviruses have been explored in 9371 individuals from 160 species of bats, and 187 coronavirus sequences have been deposited in GenBank distributed in 43 species of bats. While 91% of the coronaviruses sequences identified infect a single species of bat, the remainder show a change of host, dominating the intragenera change. So far, only Mex-CoV-6 is related to MERS-CoV, a coronavirus pathogenic for humans, so further coronavirus research effort in yet unexplored bat species is warranted. MDPI 2021-06-25 /pmc/articles/PMC8310043/ /pubmed/34201926 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v13071226 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Hernández-Aguilar, Itandehui Lorenzo, Consuelo Santos-Moreno, Antonio Naranjo, Eduardo J. Navarrete-Gutiérrez, Darío Coronaviruses in Bats: A Review for the Americas |
title | Coronaviruses in Bats: A Review for the Americas |
title_full | Coronaviruses in Bats: A Review for the Americas |
title_fullStr | Coronaviruses in Bats: A Review for the Americas |
title_full_unstemmed | Coronaviruses in Bats: A Review for the Americas |
title_short | Coronaviruses in Bats: A Review for the Americas |
title_sort | coronaviruses in bats: a review for the americas |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8310043/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34201926 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v13071226 |
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