| coronavirus infections in companion animals: virology, epidemiology, clinical and pathologic features. | coronaviruses are enveloped rna viruses capable of causing respiratory, enteric, or systemic diseases in a variety of mammalian hosts that vary in clinical severity from subclinical to fatal. the host range and tissue tropism are largely determined by the coronaviral spike protein, which initiates cellular infection by promoting fusion of the viral and host cell membranes. companion animal coronaviruses responsible for causing enteric infection include feline enteric coronavirus, ferret enteric ... | 2020 | 32933150 |
| identification and characterization of a novel alpaca respiratory coronavirus most closely related to the human coronavirus 229e. | in 2007, a novel coronavirus associated with an acute respiratory disease in alpacas (alpaca coronavirus, acov) was isolated. full-length genomic sequencing of the acov demonstrated the genome to be consistent with other alphacoronaviruses. a putative additional open-reading frame was identified between the nucleocapsid gene and 3'utr. the acov was genetically most similar to the common human coronavirus (hcov) 229e with 92.2% nucleotide identity over the entire genome. a comparison of spike gen ... | 2012 | 23235471 |