• DOI:10.1038/nature12711
Corpus ID: 4464714

Isolation and characterization of a bat SARS-like coronavirus that uses the ACE2 receptor

@article{Ge2013IsolationAC,
  title={Isolation and characterization of a bat SARS-like coronavirus that uses the ACE2 receptor},
  author={Xing-Yi Ge and Jialu Li and X. Y{\'a}ng and Aleksei A. Chmura and Guangjian Zhu and J. Epstein and J. Mazet and B. Hu and W. Zhang and Cheng Peng and Yu-Ji Zhang and Chu-Ming Luo and Bing Tan and Ning Wang and Y. Zhu and G. Crameri and S. Zhang and L. Wang and P. Daszak and Z. Sh{\'i}},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2013},
  volume={503},
  pages={535 - 538}
}

• Xing-Yi Ge, Jialu Li, +17 authors Z. Shí
• Published 2013
• Medicine, Biology
• Nature

The 2002–3 pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) was one of the most significant public health events in recent history. An ongoing outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus suggests that this group of viruses remains a key threat and that their distribution is wider than previously recognized. Although bats have been suggested to be the natural reservoirs of both viruses, attempts to isolate the progenitor virus of SARS-CoV from bats have… Expand

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