Alphacoronaviruses in New World Bats: Prevalence, Persistence, Phylogeny, and Potential for Interaction with Humans

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 6; no. 5; p. e19156
• Main Authors: Osborne, Christina, Cryan, Paul M., O'Shea, Thomas J., Oko, Lauren M., Ndaluka, Christina, Calisher, Charles H., Berglund, Andrew D., Klavetter, Mead L., Bowen, Richard A., Holmes, Kathryn V., Dominguez, Samuel R.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 12.05.2011; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Animals; Bats; Bats (Animals); Biogeography; Biology; Chiroptera; Chiroptera - virology; Coronaviridae; Coronaviridae - classification; Coronaviridae - genetics; Coronaviridae - isolation & purification; Coronaviruses; Gene sequencing; Genes; Genomes; Geology; Humans; Mammalia; Medicine; Pediatrics; Phylogenetics; Phylogeny; Rabies; Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; Ribonucleic acid; RNA; RNA polymerase; Roosts; Rousettus; Science; Species; Surveillance; Veterinary Science; Viruses; Zoonoses; United States > US; Colorado

Bats are reservoirs for many different coronaviruses (CoVs) as well as many other important zoonotic viruses. We sampled feces and/or anal swabs of 1,044 insectivorous bats of 2 families and 17 species from 21 different locations within Colorado from 2007 to 2009. We detected alphacoronavirus RNA in...