TY - JOUR AU - Annan, Augustina AU - Baldwin, Heather AU - Corman, Victor Max AU - Klose, Stefan AU - Owusu, Michael AU - Nkrumah, Evans Ewald AU - Badu, Ebenezer Kofi AU - Anti, Priscilla AU - Agbenyega, Olivia AU - Meyer, Benjamin AU - Oppong, Samuel AU - Sarkodie, Yaw Adu AU - Kalko, Elisabeth K.V. AU - Lina, Peter H.C. AU - Godlevska, Elena AU - Reusken, Chantal AU - Seebens, Antje AU - Gloza-Rausch, Florian AU - Vallo, Peter AU - Tschapka, Marco AU - Drosten, Christian AU - Drexler, Jan Felix T1 - Human Betacoronavirus 2c EMC/2012–related Viruses in Bats, Ghana and Europe T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2013 VL - 19 IS - 3 SP - 456 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We screened fecal specimens of 4,758 bats from Ghana and 272 bats from 4 European countries for betacoronaviruses. Viruses related to the novel human betacoronavirus EMC/2012 were detected in 46 (24.9%) of 185 Nycteris bats and 40 (14.7%) of 272 Pipistrellus bats. Their genetic relatedness indicated EMC/2012 originated from bats. KW - Africa KW - Europe KW - coronavirus KW - bats KW - human betacoronavirus KW - CoV-EMC KW - viruses KW - Ghana DO - 10.3201/eid1903.121503 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/19/3/12-1503_article ER - End of Reference