• Emerging Infect. Dis. · Dec 2020

    Detection and Characterization of Bat Sarbecovirus Phylogenetically Related to SARS-CoV-2, Japan.

    • Shin Murakami, Tomoya Kitamura, Jin Suzuki, Ryouta Sato, Toshiki Aoi, Marina Fujii, Hiromichi Matsugo, Haruhiko Kamiki, Hiroho Ishida, Akiko Takenaka-Uema, Masayuki Shimojima, and Taisuke Horimoto.
    • Emerging Infect. Dis. 2020 Dec 1; 26 (12): 3025-3029.

    AbstractEpidemiology of bat Betacoronavirus, subgenus Sarbecovirus is largely unknown, especially outside China. We detected a sarbecovirus phylogenetically related to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 from Rhinolophus cornutus bats in Japan. The sarbecovirus' spike protein specifically recognizes angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 of R. cornutus, but not humans, as an entry receptor.

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