Patrick C. Y. Woo

TL;DR: In a surveillance study for CoV in noncaged animals from the wild areas of the Hong Kong Special Administration Region, a CoV closely related to SARS-CoV is identified from 23 (39%) of 59 anal swabs of wild Chinese horseshoe bats by using RT-PCR and the presence of a 29-bp insertion in ORF 8 of bat-SARS- coV genome suggests that it has a common ancestor with civet SARS -CoV.

TL;DR: The data support the existence of a novel group 2 coronavirus associated with pneumonia in humans, CoV-HKU1, from a 71-year-old man with pneumonia who had just returned from Shenzhen, China.

TL;DR: It appears that bats and birds, the warm blooded flying vertebrates, are ideal hosts for the coronavirus gene source and birds for Gammacoronavirus and Deltacor onavirus, to fuel coronav virus evolution and dissemination.

TL;DR: During the summer of 2012, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, a hitherto unknown coronavirus was isolated from the sputum of a patient with acute pneumonia and renal failure and was provisionally called human coronav virus Erasmus Medical Center (EMC).

TL;DR: The findings that horseshoe bats are the natural reservoir for SARS-CoV-like virus and that civets are the amplification host highlight the importance of wildlife and biosecurity in farms and wet markets, which can serve as the source and amplification centers for emerging infections.