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Detection and phylogenetic analysis of group 1 coronaviruses in South American bats
Christine V F Carrington1, Jerome E Foster, Hua Chen Zhu
1Department of Preclinical Sciences, Faculty of MedicalSciences, Biochemistry Unit, University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. carrington@sta.uwi.edu
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|December 3, 2008
Abstract:
Bat coronaviruses (Bt-CoVs) are thought to be the precursors of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus. We detected Bt-CoVs in 2 bat species from Trinidad. Phylogenetic analysis of the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase gene and helicase confirmed them as group 1 coronaviruses.
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