More efforts are needed for background surveys of zoonotic coronaviruses in animals.

Wang, Liang; Yang, Jing; Sun, Kangtai; Bi, Yuhai; Gao, George F · Cell Rep Med · 2022

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Recently, a novel dog-origin coronavirus has been found in humans. The low similarity between the receptor-binding domain from this novel virus and other human-infecting coronaviruses in genus <i>Alphacoronavirus</i> suggests it might use a novel receptor or mechanism to enter human cells and also might trigger a novel immune response.

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