Volume 16, Number 8—August 2010
Research
Bat Coronaviruses and Experimental Infection of Bats, the Philippines
Shumpei Watanabe, Joseph S. Masangkay, Noriyo Nagata, Shigeru Morikawa, Tetsuya Mizutani, Shuetsu Fukushi, Phillip Alviola, Tsutomu Omatsu, Naoya Ueda, Koichiro Iha, Satoshi Taniguchi, Hikaru Fujii, Shumpei Tsuda, Maiko Endoh, Kentaro Kato, Yukinobu Tohya, Shigeru Kyuwa, Yasuhiro Yoshikawa, and Hiroomi Akashi
Table 3
Time course of detection of coronavirus viral genome by PCR in feces from 2 fruit bats, the Philippines*
| Test | Days after infection |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| RT-PCR | – | – | – | + | ND | + |
| Quantitative RT-PCR | – | – | 5.31 × 104 | 1.74 ×107 | ND | 1.5 × 106 |
*Values are copies per milligram. RT-PCR, reverse transcription–PCR; –, virus RNA not detected; +, virus RNA detected; ND, not done.
