Detection and Characterization of New Coronavirus in Bottlenose Dolphin, United States, 2019

• Published in: Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Authors: Leyi Wang, Carol Maddox, Karen Terio, Saraswathi Lanka, Richard Fredrickson, Brittany Novick, Celeste Parry, Abby McClain, Kyle Ross
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2020
• Subjects: coronavirus; viruses; detection; genetic characterization; bottlenose dolphin; zoonoses; Medicine; R; Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; The Spike; Beluga; Beluga whale; Beluga*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2607.200093; https://doaj.org/article/9c512c7b660845a1a4ca87291a3fe7c1

We characterized novel coronaviruses detected in US bottlenose dolphins (BdCoVs) with diarrhea. These viruses are closely related to the other 2 known cetacean coronaviruses, Hong Kong BdCoV and beluga whale CoV. A deletion in the spike gene and insertions in the membrane gene and untranslated regions were found in US BdCoVs (unrelated to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2).