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Journal Article
Identifying SARS-CoV-2-related coronaviruses in Malayan pangolins
2020
Overview
The ongoing outbreak of viral pneumonia in China and across the world is associated with a new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2
1
. This outbreak has been tentatively associated with a seafood market in Wuhan, China, where the sale of wild animals may be the source of zoonotic infection
2
. Although bats are probable reservoir hosts for SARS-CoV-2, the identity of any intermediate host that may have facilitated transfer to humans is unknown. Here we report the identification of SARS-CoV-2-related coronaviruses in Malayan pangolins (
Manis javanica
) seized in anti-smuggling operations in southern China. Metagenomic sequencing identified pangolin-associated coronaviruses that belong to two sub-lineages of SARS-CoV-2-related coronaviruses, including one that exhibits strong similarity in the receptor-binding domain to SARS-CoV-2. The discovery of multiple lineages of pangolin coronavirus and their similarity to SARS-CoV-2 suggests that pangolins should be considered as possible hosts in the emergence of new coronaviruses and should be removed from wet markets to prevent zoonotic transmission.
SARS-CoV-2-related coronaviruses are identified in Malayan pangolins (
Manis javanica
); these pangolin-associated coronaviruses belonged to two sub-lineages of SARS-CoV-2-related coronaviruses, including one that exhibits strong similarity in the receptor-binding domain to SARS-CoV-2.
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group UK,Nature Publishing Group
Subject
/ 45/91
/ Animals
/ Betacoronavirus - classification
/ Betacoronavirus - isolation & purification
/ Coronavirus Infections - epidemiology
/ Coronavirus Infections - transmission
/ Coronavirus Infections - virology
/ COVID-19
/ Disease Reservoirs - virology
/ Endangered & extinct species
/ Genomes
/ Genomics
/ Humanities and Social Sciences
/ Humans
/ Malaysia
/ Mammals
/ Pneumonia, Viral - epidemiology
/ Pneumonia, Viral - transmission
/ Science
/ Seafood
/ Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
/ Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
/ Spike Glycoprotein, Coronavirus - chemistry
/ Spike Glycoprotein, Coronavirus - genetics
/ Viruses
/ Zoonoses
