Publications

severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-like virus in chinese horseshoe bats.	although the finding of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (sars-cov) in caged palm civets from live animal markets in china has provided evidence for interspecies transmission in the genesis of the sars epidemic, subsequent studies suggested that the civet may have served only as an amplification host for sars-cov. in a surveillance study for cov in noncaged animals from the wild areas of the hong kong special administration region, we identified a cov closely related to sars-cov (ba ...	2005	16169905
complete genome sequence of bat coronavirus hku2 from chinese horseshoe bats revealed a much smaller spike gene with a different evolutionary lineage from the rest of the genome.	apart from bat-sars-cov, we have identified a novel group 1 coronavirus, bat-cov hku2, in rhinolophus sinicus (chinese horseshoe bats). since it has been suggested that the receptor-binding motif (rbm) of sars-cov may have been acquired from a group 1 coronavirus, we conducted a surveillance study and identified bat-sars-cov and bat-cov hku2 in 8.7% and 7.5% respectively of r. sinicus in hong kong and guangdong. complete genome sequencing of four strains of bat-cov hku2 revealed the smallest cor ...	2007	17617433