{"id":5531,"date":"2020-03-27T13:36:40","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T03:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.mine.nu\/blog\/?p=5531"},"modified":"2020-03-27T13:36:40","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T03:36:40","slug":"identifying-sars-cov-2-related-coronaviruses-in-malayan-pangolins-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/03\/27\/identifying-sars-cov-2-related-coronaviruses-in-malayan-pangolins-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Identifying SARS-CoV-2 related coronaviruses in Malayan pangolins | Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The ongoing outbreak of viral pneumonia in China and beyond is associated with a novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-21. 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 infection2. Although bats are likely reservoir hosts for SARS-CoV-2, the identity of any intermediate host that might 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 to SARS-CoV-2 in the receptor-binding domain. 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 novel coronaviruses and should be removed from wet markets to prevent zoonotic transmission.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-020-2169-0?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_content=organic&amp;utm_campaign=NGMT_USG_JC01_GL_Nature\">Identifying SARS-CoV-2 related coronaviruses in Malayan pangolins | Nature<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ongoing outbreak of viral pneumonia in China and beyond is associated with a novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-21. This outbreak [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5532,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5531\/revisions\/5532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}