[HTML][HTML] Novel human coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2): A lesson from animal coronaviruses

N Decaro, A Lorusso - Veterinary microbiology, 2020 - Elsevier
The recent pandemic caused by the novel human coronavirus, referrred to as severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), not only is having a great impact on the …

Bat-borne virus diversity, spillover and emergence

M Letko, SN Seifert, KJ Olival, RK Plowright… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Most viral pathogens in humans have animal origins and arose through cross-species
transmission. Over the past 50 years, several viruses, including Ebola virus, Marburg virus …

Coronavirus (COVID-19) and racial disparities: a perspective analysis

J Louis-Jean, K Cenat, CV Njoku, J Angelo… - Journal of racial and …, 2020 - Springer
Health disparity refers to systematic differences in health outcomes between groups and
communities based on socioeconomic isolation. In the USA, health disparities among …

[HTML][HTML] The SARS-CoV-2 outbreak from a one health perspective

MG Hemida, MMB Abduallah - One Health, 2020 - Elsevier
The severe acute respiratory syndrome cornavirus (SARS-CoV-2) is a new human
coronavirus candidate recently detected in China that is now reported in people on …

Bat coronavirus phylogeography in the Western Indian Ocean

L Joffrin, SM Goodman, DA Wilkinson… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Bats provide key ecosystem services such as crop pest regulation, pollination, seed
dispersal, and soil fertilization. Bats are also major hosts for biological agents responsible …

Bat‐borne viruses in Africa: a critical review

W Markotter, J Coertse, L De Vries… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In Africa, bat‐borne zoonoses emerged in the past few decades resulting in large outbreaks
or just sporadic spillovers. In addition, hundreds of more viruses are described without any …

Whole genome identification of potential G-quadruplexes and analysis of the G-quadruplex binding domain for SARS-CoV-2

R Zhang, K Xiao, Y Gu, H Liu, X Sun - Frontiers in genetics, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) has become a global public health emergency. G …

Viral metagenomic profiling of Croatian bat population reveals sample and habitat dependent diversity

I Šimić, TM Zorec, I Lojkić, N Krešić, M Poljak, F Cliquet… - Viruses, 2020 - mdpi.com
To date, the microbiome, as well as the virome of the Croatian populations of bats, was
unknown. Here, we present the results of the first viral metagenomic analysis of guano, feces …

Novel herpesviruses in neotropical bats and their relationship with other members of the Herpesviridae family

S James, D Donato, B de Thoisy, A Lavergne… - Infection, Genetics and …, 2020 - Elsevier
In the past decade, a large number of studies have detected herpesvirus sequences from
many bat species around the world. Nevertheless, the discovery of bat herpesviruses is …

First detection of bat-borne Issyk-Kul virus in Europe

A Brinkmann, C Kohl, A Radonić, PW Dabrowski… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Bats have been gaining attention as potential reservoir hosts of numerous viruses
pathogenic to animals and man. Issyk-Kul virus, a member of the family Nairoviridae, was …