Bat SARS-like Coronavirus WIV1

Bat SARS-like coronavirus WIV1 (Bat SL-CoV-WIV1), also sometimes called SARS-like coronavirus WIV1, is a strain of ''severe acute respiratory syndrome–related coronavirus'' (SARSr-CoV) isolated from Chinese rufous horseshoe bats in 2013 (''Rhinolophus sinicus''). Like all coronaviruses, virions consist of single-stranded positive-sense RNA enclosed within an Viral envelope, envelope.

Zoonosis

The discovery confirms that bats are the natural reservoir of SARS-CoV. Phylogenetic analysis shows the possibility of direct transmission of Severe acute respiratory syndrome, SARS from bats to humans without the intermediary Chinese civets, as previously believed.Vineet D. Menachery ''et al.'', SARS-like WIV1-CoV poised for human emergence, 2016.

Phylogenetic

See also

* Bat as food
*RaTG13, Bat coronavirus RaTG13
*Bat virome
*Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, SARS-CoV-2
* Wuhan Institute of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV)

References

Animal virology
SARS-related coronavirus
Zoonoses
Bat virome
Infraspecific virus taxa

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