Ecology, evolution and spillover of coronaviruses from bats

M Ruiz-Aravena, C McKee, A Gamble, T Lunn… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
In the past two decades, three coronaviruses with ancestral origins in bats have emerged
and caused widespread outbreaks in humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome …

From SARS and MERS to COVID-19: a brief summary and comparison of severe acute respiratory infections caused by three highly pathogenic human coronaviruses

Z Zhu, X Lian, X Su, W Wu, GA Marraro, Y Zeng - Respiratory research, 2020 - Springer
Within two decades, there have emerged three highly pathogenic and deadly human
coronaviruses, namely SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2. The economic burden …

Lessons from the host defences of bats, a unique viral reservoir

AT Irving, M Ahn, G Goh, DE Anderson, LF Wang - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
There have been several major outbreaks of emerging viral diseases, including Hendra,
Nipah, Marburg and Ebola virus diseases, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and …

Infection of bat and human intestinal organoids by SARS-CoV-2

J Zhou, C Li, X Liu, MC Chiu, X Zhao, D Wang, Y Wei… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
A novel coronavirus—severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)—
emerged in humans in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 and has since disseminated …

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 …

Origin and cross-species transmission of bat coronaviruses in China

A Latinne, B Hu, KJ Olival, G Zhu, L Zhang, H Li… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Bats are presumed reservoirs of diverse coronaviruses (CoVs) including progenitors of
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)-CoV and SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of …

Evolutionary trajectory of SARS-CoV-2 and emerging variants

J Singh, P Pandit, AG McArthur, A Banerjee… - Virology journal, 2021 - Springer
The emergence of a novel coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2), and more recently, the independent evolution of multiple SARS-CoV-2 …

Bats and coronaviruses

A Banerjee, K Kulcsar, V Misra, M Frieman, K Mossman - Viruses, 2019 - mdpi.com
Bats are speculated to be reservoirs of several emerging viruses including coronaviruses
(CoVs) that cause serious disease in humans and agricultural animals. These include CoVs …

Animal and translational models of SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19

MD Johansen, A Irving, X Montagutelli, MD Tate… - Mucosal …, 2020 - nature.com
COVID-19 is causing a major once-in-a-century global pandemic. The scientific and clinical
community is in a race to define and develop effective preventions and treatments. The …

SARS and MERS: recent insights into emerging coronaviruses

E De Wit, N Van Doremalen, D Falzarano… - Nature reviews …, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract The emergence of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in
2012 marked the second introduction of a highly pathogenic coronavirus into the human …