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''Rousettus bat coronavirus HKU9'' (''HKU9-1'') is an enveloped,
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single-stranded When referring to DNA transcription, the coding strand (or informational strand) is the DNA strand whose base sequence is identical to the base sequence of the RNA transcript produced (although with thymine replaced by uracil). It is this stra ...
RNA mammalian Group 2 ''
Betacoronavirus ''Betacoronavirus'' (β-CoVs or Beta-CoVs) is one of four genera (''Alpha''-, ''Beta-'', '' Gamma-'', and '' Delta-'') of coronaviruses. Member viruses are enveloped, positive-strand RNA viruses that infect mammals (of which humans are part). ...
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Rousettus ''Rousettus'' is a genus of Old World fruit bats or megabats, referred to as rousette bats. The genus is a member of the family Pteropodidae. The genus consists of seven species that range over most of Africa to southeast Asia, and the islands ...
'' bats in China in 2011. This strain of coronavirus is closely related to the EMC/2012 strain found in London which is related to the ''
Middle East respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus ''Middle East respiratory syndrome–related coronavirus'' (''MERS-CoV''), or EMC/2012 ( HCoV-EMC/2012), is the virus that causes Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS). It is a species of coronavirus which infects humans, bats, and camels. Th ...
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MERS-CoV ''Middle East respiratory syndrome–related coronavirus'' (''MERS-CoV''), or EMC/2012 ( HCoV-EMC/2012), is the virus that causes Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS). It is a species of coronavirus which infects humans, bats, and camels. Th ...
''). The ''MERS-CoV'' species is responsible for the 2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus outbreak in
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Transmission

The exact means of transmission to humans is not yet well known. However, it has been demonstrated that betaCoV's including HKU4 have the propensity to recombine and cause interspecies transmission. However, this is not seen in Group C betacoronaviruses to which MERS-CoV is most closely related.


See also

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Severe acute respiratory syndrome Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a viral respiratory disease of zoonotic origin caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV or SARS-CoV-1), the first identified strain of the SARS coronavirus species, ''seve ...
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Tylonycteris The bamboo bats are genus of vesper bats Vespertilionidae is a family of microbats, of the order Chiroptera, flying, insect-eating mammals variously described as the common, vesper, or simple nosed bats. The vespertilionid family is the most d ...
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Pipistrellus ''Pipistrellus'' is a genus of bats in the family Vespertilionidae and subfamily Vespertilioninae. The name of the genus is derived from the Italian language, Italian word , meaning "bat" (from Latin "bird of evening, bat"). The size of the ge ...
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Human coronavirus HKU1 ''Human coronavirus HKU1'' (''HCoV-HKU1'') is a species of coronavirus in humans and animals. It causes an upper respiratory disease with symptoms of the common cold, but can advance to pneumonia and bronchiolitis. It was first discovered in Ja ...
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Human coronavirus OC43 Human coronavirus OC43 (HCoV-OC43) is a member of the species '' Betacoronavirus 1'', which infects humans and cattle. The infecting coronavirus is an enveloped, positive-sense, single-stranded RNA virus that enters its host cell by binding to ...
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Pipistrellus bat coronavirus HKU5 ''Pipistrellus bat coronavirus HKU5'' (''Bat-CoV HKU5'') is an enveloped, positive-sense single-stranded RNA mammalian Group 2 '' Betacoronavirus'' discovered in Japanese ''Pipistrellus'' in Hong Kong. This strain of coronavirus is closely relat ...
'' * ''Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 SARS-CoV-2'' *
RNA virus An RNA virus is a virusother than a retrovirusthat has ribonucleic acid (RNA) as its genetic material. The nucleic acid is usually single-stranded RNA ( ssRNA) but it may be double-stranded (dsRNA). Notable human diseases caused by RNA viruses ...
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Animal viruses Veterinary virology is the study of viruses in non-human animals. It is an important branch of veterinary medicine. Rhabdoviruses Rhabdoviruses are a diverse family of single stranded, negative sense RNA viruses that infect a wide range of ho ...


References


External links


London1-nCoV-2012 phylogenetic tree





Virus Pathogen Database and Analysis Resource (ViPR): ''Coronaviridae''
{{Taxonbar, from=Q16992344 Betacoronaviruses Animal viral diseases Bat diseases Bat virome