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SUBMITTER: Pfefferle S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2819850 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pfefferle Susanne S Oppong Samuel S Drexler Jan Felix JF Gloza-Rausch Florian F Ipsen Anne A Seebens Antje A Müller Marcel A MA Annan Augustina A Vallo Peter P Adu-Sarkodie Yaw Y Kruppa Thomas F TF Drosten Christian C
Emerging infectious diseases 20090901 9
We tested 12 bat species in Ghana for coronavirus (CoV) RNA. The virus prevalence in insectivorous bats (n = 123) was 9.76%. CoV was not detected in 212 fecal samples from Eidolon helvum fruit bats. Leaf-nosed bats pertaining to Hipposideros ruber by morphology had group 1 and group 2 CoVs. Virus concentrations were < or =45,000 copies/100 mg of bat feces. The diversified group 1 CoV shared a common ancestor with the human common cold virus hCoV-229E but not with hCoV-NL63, disputing hypotheses ...[more]