In the past two decades, three coronaviruses with ancestral origins in bats have emerged
and caused widespread outbreaks in humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome …

Bats are a unique group of mammals of the order Chiroptera. They are highly diversified and
are the group of mammals with the second largest number of species. Such highly …

Abstract SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV), the causative agent of the large SARS outbreak in
2003, originated in bats. Many SARS-like coronaviruses (SL-CoVs) have been detected in …

Bats have been recognized as the natural reservoirs of a large variety of viruses. Special
attention has been paid to bat coronaviruses as the two emerging coronaviruses which have …

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) envelope (E) protein is a
viroporin involved in virulence. E protein ion channel (IC) activity is specifically correlated …

During the summer of 2012, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, a hitherto unknown coronavirus (CoV)
was isolated from the sputum of a patient with acute pneumonia and renal failure (1, 2). The …

Deletion of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (SARS-CoV) envelope (E)
gene attenuates the virus. E gene encodes a small multifunctional protein that possesses …

Abstract In 2002/2003, a novel coronavirus (CoV) caused a pandemic, infecting more than
8000 people, of whom nearly 10% died. This virus, termed severe acute respiratory …

1. Shojaei H, Daley C, Gitti Z, Hashemi A, Heidarieh P, Moore ERB, et al. M. iranicum sp.
nov., a rapidly-growing scotochromogenic species isolated from clinical specimens on three …

The loss of biodiversity in the ecosystems has created the general conditions that have
favored and, in fact, made possible, the insurgence of the COVID-19 pandemic. A lot of …