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HomescienceStudy related to bat horseshoe virus for COVID

Study related to bat horseshoe virus for COVID

Researchers from the Pasteur Institute and the University of Laos have found that horseshoe bats found in caves in Laos carry coronaviruses similar to SARS-CoV-2.

Prepress study and will be published by A. Consider nature of mood magazine.

The researchers searched for viruses similar to SARS-CoV-2 and found three paddle They contain receptor-binding domains very similar to those of the virus, Bloomberg mentioned. The domains are part of the barbed protein that enables the virus to bind to the human enzyme ACE-2. The study showed that no other virus similar to the microbe that causes COVID uses this enzyme to infect human cells.

The researchers named the pathogens BANAL-52, BANAL-103 and BANAL-236.

Vector transmission electron microscopy of SARS-CoV-2, also known as the novel coronavirus, the virus that causes COVID-19, isolated from a patient in the United States shows virus particles leaking from the surface of cells cultured in a laboratory. (Credit: NIAID-RML / FILE PHOTO / HANDOUT VIA REUTERS)

The findings support the theory that the COVID-19 pandemic arose due to the genetic crossover of the bat coronavirus.

the interview BloombergThe found coronaviruses are the “next known ancestors of SARS-CoV-2,” Mark Elwett, head of pathogen discovery at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, and co-authors said.

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“These viruses may have contributed to the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 and could pose a future risk of direct transmission to humans,” he added.

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