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. 2021 Aug;19(8):482.
doi: 10.1038/s41579-021-00595-8.

Searching for relatives of SARS-CoV-2 in bats

Ashley York  1
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Searching for relatives of SARS-CoV-2 in bats

Ashley York. Nat Rev Microbiol. 2021 Aug.

Abstract

A recent study reports the discovery of bat coronaviruses that are closely related to SARS-CoV-2, including a virus that displays high sequence identity to SARS-CoV-2 in most genomic regions.

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