1. A New Bat-HKU2–like Coronavirus in Swine, China, 2017
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Lang Gong, Jie Li, Qingfeng Zhou, Zhichao Xu, Li Chen, Yun Zhang, Chunyi Xue, Zhifen Wen, and Yongchang Cao
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swine ,diarrhea ,coronavirus ,Coronaviridae ,bat-HKU2 ,porcine enteric alphacoronavirus ,Medicine ,Infectious and parasitic diseases ,RC109-216 - Abstract
We identified from suckling piglets with diarrhea in China a new bat-HKU2–like porcine coronavirus (porcine enteric alphacoronavirus). The GDS04 strain of this coronavirus shares high aa identities (>90%) with the reported bat-HKU2 strains in Coronaviridae-wide conserved domains, suggesting that the GDS04 strain belongs to the same species as HKU2.
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- 2017
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