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Pangolin merbecovirus gets down to (poly)basics

Trafficking of live mammals is considered a major risk for emergence of zoonotic viruses. SARS-CoV-2-related coronaviruses have previously been identified in pangolins, the world’s most smuggled mammal. A new study identifies a MERS-related coronavirus in trafficked pangolins with broad mammalian tr...

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Autor principal: Neil, Stuart J.D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9933577/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36803601
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2023.01.009
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description Trafficking of live mammals is considered a major risk for emergence of zoonotic viruses. SARS-CoV-2-related coronaviruses have previously been identified in pangolins, the world’s most smuggled mammal. A new study identifies a MERS-related coronavirus in trafficked pangolins with broad mammalian tropism and a newly acquired furin cleavage site in Spike.
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spelling pubmed-99335772023-02-17 Pangolin merbecovirus gets down to (poly)basics Neil, Stuart J.D. Cell Preview Trafficking of live mammals is considered a major risk for emergence of zoonotic viruses. SARS-CoV-2-related coronaviruses have previously been identified in pangolins, the world’s most smuggled mammal. A new study identifies a MERS-related coronavirus in trafficked pangolins with broad mammalian tropism and a newly acquired furin cleavage site in Spike. Elsevier Inc. 2023-02-16 2023-02-16 /pmc/articles/PMC9933577/ /pubmed/36803601 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2023.01.009 Text en © 2023 Elsevier Inc. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9933577/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36803601
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2023.01.009
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