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

• Published in: Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Authors: Wang, Leyi, Maddox, Carol, Terio, Karen, Lanka, Saraswathi, Fredrickson, Richard, Novick, Brittany, Parry, Celeste, McClain, Abby, Ross, Kyle
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2020
• Subjects: Research Letter; The Spike; Beluga; Beluga whale; Beluga*
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7323548/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32568058; https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2607.200093

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 regio...