Detection of coronaviruses in Pteropus & Rousettus species of bats from different States of India

• Published in: Indian journal of medical research (New Delhi, India : 1994) Vol. 151; no. 2; pp. 226 - 235
• Main Authors: Yadav, Pragya, Shete-Aich, Anita, Nyayanit, Dimpal, Pardeshi, Prachi, Majumdar, Triparna, Balasubramanian, R, Ullas, Padinjaremattathil, Mohandas, Sreelekshmy, Dighe, Hitesh, Sawant, Pradeep, Patil, Savita, Patil, Dilip, Gokhale, M, Mathapati, Basavaraj, Sudeep, A, Baradkar, Sreekant, Kumar, Abhimanyu, Kharde, Rutuja, Salve, Malvika, Joshi, Yash, Gupta, Nivedita, Mourya, Devendra
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: India Wolters Kluwer India Pvt. Ltd 01.02.2020; Medknow Publications and Media Pvt. Ltd; Scientific Scholar; Wolters Kluwer - Medknow
• Subjects: Animals; Bats; Chiroptera - virology; Coronavirus - classification; Coronavirus - isolation & purification; Coronavirus infections; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; Genome, Viral; Health aspects; High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing; India; Original; Pathogenic microorganisms; Phylogeny; Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; Severe acute respiratory syndrome; Viruses; India; United States > US; China; Germany; Bats; coronavirus; reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction; phylogenetic; next-generation sequencing; India

Background & objectives: Bats are considered to be the natural reservoir for many viruses, of which some are potential human pathogens. In India, an association of Pteropus medius bats with the Nipah virus was reported in the past. It is suspected that the recently emerged severe acute respirato...