Sunday, February 3, 2013

SARS-Like Virus Has Key Differences | Synopsis

SARS-Like Virus Has Key Differences

Bat survey in Ohio - 02/10/2011
Bat survey in Ohio - 02/10/2011 by U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Northeast Region
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The SARS-like coronavirus that has killed five people and sickened four more has some important -- and possibly dangerous -- differences from the virus that caused the deadly 2003 SARS outbreak, researchers reported. The new virus -- dubbed hCoV-EMC -- appears to be able to infect a wide range of mammalian cells, including those of bats, according to Dr. Christian Drosten of the University of Bonn Medical Center in Bonn, Germany, and colleagues. That could mean it has a natural host in the wild and a relatively low barrier against cross-species transmission, Drosten and colleagues reported online in mBio. Read this story on www.medpagetoday.com. Other coronaviruses that infect humans -- including the SARS virus -- began as bat pathogens, but lost the ability to infect the flying mammals when they adapted to humans, the researchers noted.

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Dr. Christian Drosten

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-0.184481"The (SARS) virus lost its old host and gained a new one," Drosten said ...
0.270829"quite remarkable" range of possible targets for hCoV-EMC suggests that humans might repeatedly acquire the virus, Drosten ...
-0.16694"This virus is closely related to the SARS virus, and looking at the clinical picture, it causes the same pattern of disease," Drosten said. ...
0"was a big surprise," Drosten said. ...
0.0992011"was a big surprise," Drosten said. "It's completely unusual for any coronavirus to be able to do that -- to go back to its original reservoir."
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