CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
UNLPam Facultad De Ciencias Veterinarias, Bioterio, La Pampa, Argentina.
Arch Virol. 2023 Feb 5;168(3):78. doi: 10.1007/s00705-023-05703-y.
Due to the present pandemic situation and the many animal species that are epidemiologically involved, there has been a surge of renewed interest in investigating the coronavirus (CoV) population circulating in wildlife, especially bats and rodents, which are potential reservoirs of new human pathogens. In Argentina, information about the viruses present in these mammals is very limited. To investigate the presence of coronaviruses in this country, we obtained 457 samples from hematophagous, insectivorous, and frugivorous bats and rodents from two regions of Argentina. We report here the detection of alphacoronavirus sequences in three groups of bats as well as in rodents. Phylogenetic analysis showed the closest relationships to alphacoronaviruses from Brazil.
由于当前的大流行形势以及许多与流行病学相关的动物物种，人们对调查野生动物（尤其是蝙蝠和啮齿动物）中流行的冠状病毒（CoV）种群产生了浓厚的兴趣，因为它们是新的人类病原体的潜在宿主。在阿根廷，有关这些哺乳动物中存在的病毒的信息非常有限。为了调查该国病毒的存在情况，我们从阿根廷的两个地区采集了 457 份吸血蝙蝠、食虫蝙蝠和食果蝙蝠及啮齿动物样本。我们在此报告在三组蝙蝠和啮齿动物中检测到了甲型冠状病毒序列。系统发育分析显示与来自巴西的甲型冠状病毒关系最密切。
