TY - JOUR
T1 - Coronaviruses in bats
T2 - A review for the americas
AU - Hernández-Aguilar, Itandehui
AU - Lorenzo, Consuelo
AU - Santos-Moreno, Antonio
AU - Naranjo, Eduardo J.
AU - Navarrete-Gutiérrez, Darío
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
PY - 2021/7
Y1 - 2021/7
N2 - The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is the focus of attention as it has caused more than three million human deaths globally. This and other coronaviruses, such as MERS-CoV, have been suggested to be related to coronaviruses that are hosted in bats. This work shows, through a bibliographic review, the frequency of detection of coronavirus in bats species of the Americas. The presence of coronavirus in bats has been examined in 25 investigations in 11 countries of the Americas between 2007 and 2020. Coronaviruses have been explored in 9371 individuals from 160 species of bats, and 187 coronavirus sequences have been deposited in GenBank distributed in 43 species of bats. While 91% of the coronaviruses sequences identified infect a single species of bat, the remainder show a change of host, dominating the intragenera change. So far, only Mex-CoV-6 is related to MERS-CoV, a coronavirus pathogenic for humans, so further coronavirus research effort in yet unexplored bat species is warranted.
AB - The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is the focus of attention as it has caused more than three million human deaths globally. This and other coronaviruses, such as MERS-CoV, have been suggested to be related to coronaviruses that are hosted in bats. This work shows, through a bibliographic review, the frequency of detection of coronavirus in bats species of the Americas. The presence of coronavirus in bats has been examined in 25 investigations in 11 countries of the Americas between 2007 and 2020. Coronaviruses have been explored in 9371 individuals from 160 species of bats, and 187 coronavirus sequences have been deposited in GenBank distributed in 43 species of bats. While 91% of the coronaviruses sequences identified infect a single species of bat, the remainder show a change of host, dominating the intragenera change. So far, only Mex-CoV-6 is related to MERS-CoV, a coronavirus pathogenic for humans, so further coronavirus research effort in yet unexplored bat species is warranted.
KW - Alphacoronavirus
KW - Betacoronavirus
KW - COVID-19
KW - Chiropterans
KW - Host
KW - MERS
KW - SARS
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85109413467&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/v13071226
DO - 10.3390/v13071226
M3 - Artículo de revisión
C2 - 34201926
AN - SCOPUS:85109413467
SN - 1999-4915
VL - 13
JO - Viruses
JF - Viruses
IS - 7
M1 - 1226
ER -
