Sentences with phrase «infect bat cells»
«The fact that [hCoV - EMC] can infect bat cells is consistent with the hypothesis that bats might be the origin of this virus, but this finding doesn't prove it,» Anderson says.
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The SARS virus, for instance, originated in Chinese horseshoe bats, but once it ended up in humans, it had changed so much that scientists were unable to infect bat cells with it.
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To determine what types of animals hCoV - EMC can infect, Drosten and colleagues infected cells from humans, pigs, and a wide variety of bats, the key natural reservoirs of coronaviruses.
The pathogen, a close cousin to the one that caused the 2002 to 2003 SARS outbreak, may also be able to infect cells from pigs and a wide range of bat species, researchers report today.
Both kill upwards of a third of people infected and, like many viruses, emerged from animals — bats and camels in the case of MERS — after mutating into a form capable of infecting human cells.