supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(2021YFC2300901 to P.Z.);China Natural Science Foundation for outstanding scholars(82325032 to P.Z.);the Self-Supporting Program of Guangzhou Laboratory(SRPG22-001 to P.Z.;GZNL2023A01001 to ZLS).
Bats are the natural reservoir hosts for SARS-related coronavirus(SARSr-CoV)and other highly pathogenic microorganisms.Therefore,it is conceivable that an individual bat may harbor multiple microbes.However,there is l...
supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (82002192,32302218);General project of Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province (2019CFA016,2022CFB539,2022CFD107);Young and Middle-aged Talents Project of Hubei Provincial Education Department (Q20222605);Tianjin Municipal Science and Technology Committee (21JCQNJC01410);China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2021M702460);Science and Technology Plan (in the field of medical and health care)of Xiangyang (2022YL05B,2022YL12A).
The established and ongoing prevalence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2(SARS-CoV-2)and seasonal human coronaviruses(HCoV)like HCoV-OC43,HCoV-NL63,and HCoV-229E,pose a continuous threat to public heal...
IS THERE A NEED FOR SEROTYPING?The emergence and rapid selection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2(SARS-CoV-2)immune escape variants have exerted significant challenges in many different ways,from pub...
Taif University Researchers are supporting project number(TURSP-2020/211),Taif University,Taif,Saudi Arabia.
The study of viruses and their genetics has been an opportunity as well as a challenge for the scientific community.The recent ongoing SARSCov2(Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome)pandemic proved the unpreparedness for ...
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus(SARS-CoV),Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus(MERS-CoV),and SARS-CoV-2 are three kinds of coronaviruses that are exceptionally pathogenic to humans via zoonotic i...
funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.32041001,81902070,U2002218);the Provincial Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province(No.2019JJ20004 and 2019JJ50035).
The frequent emergence of coronavirus(CoV)epidemics has seriously threatened public health and stock farming.The major hosts for CoVs are birds and mammals.Although most CoVs inhabit their specific natural hosts,some ...
Supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(U1902201);the CAS Light of West China Program to X.L,and from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(91731301)to J.L.
Dear Editor,The coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has become a global pandemic.The SARS-CoV-2 genome has a similarity of 96.2%to that of RaTG13,a bat SARS-CoV-2-related coronavirus...
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2(SARS-CoV-2)is a highly contagious virus that can transmit through respiratory droplets,aerosols,or contacts.Frequent touching of contaminated surfaces in public areas is...
Coronaviruses are among the largest group of known positive-sense RNA viruses with a wide range of animal hosts as reservoir. In the last two decades,newly evolved coronaviruses such as the severe acute respiratory sy...
supported by the Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University of China (IRT13007);the National S&T Major Project “China Mega-Project for Infectious Disease” (2011ZX10004-001, 2014ZX10004001) from China;the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81501773);the PUMC Youth Fund and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (3332015095, 3332015006)
Coronaviruses, such as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus, pose significant public health threats. Bats have been suggested to act as natural reservoirs for ...