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Fatal swine acute diarrhoea syndrome caused by an HKU2-related coronavirus of bat origin

Authors
  • Zhou, Peng1
  • Fan, Hang2
  • Lan, Tian3, 4
  • Yang, Xing-Lou1
  • Shi, Wei-Feng5
  • Zhang, Wei1
  • Zhu, Yan1
  • Zhang, Ya-Wei2
  • Xie, Qing-Mei3, 4
  • Mani, Shailendra6
  • Zheng, Xiao-Shuang1
  • Li, Bei1
  • Li, Jin-Man2
  • Guo, Hua1
  • Pei, Guang-Qian2
  • An, Xiao-Ping2
  • Chen, Jun-Wei3, 4
  • Zhou, Ling3, 4
  • Mai, Kai-Jie3, 4
  • Wu, Zi-Xian3, 4
  • And 25 more
  • 1 Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China , Wuhan (China)
  • 2 Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, China , Beijing (China)
  • 3 South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China , Guangzhou (China)
  • 4 Key Laboratory of Animal Health Aquaculture and Environmental Control, Guangzhou, China , Guangzhou (China)
  • 5 Taishan Medical College, Taian, China , Taian (China)
  • 6 Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore , Singapore (Singapore)
  • 7 Guangdong Institute of Applied Biological Resources, Guangzhou, China , Guangzhou (China)
  • 8 Wuhan University, Wuhan, China , Wuhan (China)
  • 9 Guangdong Laboratory Animals Monitoring Institute, Guangzhou, China , Guangzhou (China)
  • 10 EcoHealth Alliance, New York, NY, USA , New York (United States)
  • 11 North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan, China , Tangshan (China)
Type
Published Article
Journal
Nature
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
Apr 04, 2018
Volume
556
Issue
7700
Pages
255–258
Identifiers
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0010-9
Source
Springer Nature
License
Yellow

Abstract

Analysis of viral samples from deceased piglets shows that a bat coronavirus was responsible for an outbreak of fatal disease in China and highlights the importance of the identification of coronavirus diversity and distribution in bats in order to mitigate future outbreaks of disease.

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