| Chapter title |
Bats, civets and the emergence of SARS.
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|---|---|
| Chapter number | 13 |
| Book title |
Wildlife and Emerging Zoonotic Diseases: The Biology, Circumstances and Consequences of Cross-Species Transmission
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| Published in |
Current topics in microbiology and immunology, September 2007
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| DOI | 10.1007/978-3-540-70962-6_13 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Book ISBNs |
978-3-54-070961-9, 978-3-54-070962-6
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| Authors |
Wang LF, Eaton BT, L. -F. Wang, B. T. Eaton, Wang, L. -F., Eaton, B. T. |
| Abstract |
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) was the first pandemic transmissible disease of previously unknown aetiology in the twenty-first century. Early epidemiologic investigations suggested an animal origin for SARS-CoV. Virological and serological studies indicated that masked palm civets ( Paguma larvata), together with two other wildlife animals, sampled from a live animal market were infected with SARS-CoV or a closely related virus. Recently, horseshoe bats in the genus Rhinolophus have been identified as natural reservoir of SARS-like coronaviruses. Here, we review studies by different groups demonstrating that SARS-CoV succeeded in spillover from a wildlife reservoir (probably bats) to human population via an intermediate host(s) and that rapid virus evolution played a key role in the adaptation of SARS-CoVs in at least two nonreservoir species within a short period. |
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