Alberto Moraga-Fernández, Marta Sánchez-Sánchez, João Queirós, Ana M Lopes, Joaquín Vicente, Xosé Pardavila, Jorge Sereno-Cadierno, Paulo C Alves, José de la Fuente, Isabel G Fernández de Mera
Bats have long been associated with multiple pathogens, including viruses affecting humans such as henipaviruses, filoviruses, bunyaviruses and coronaviruses. The alpha and beta coronaviruses genera can infect most mammalian species. Among them, betacoronavirus SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2, which have caused the three major pandemics in the last two decades, have been proposed to originate in bats. In this study, 194 oral swabs from 22 bats species sampled in 19 locations of the Iberian Peninsula were analysed and characterized by three different PCR tests (coronavirus generic real-time RT-PCR, multiplex conventional PCR, and SARS-CoV-2 specific real-time RT-PCR) to detect bat coronaviruses...
2022: International Journal of Veterinary Science and Medicine