id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-295554-0pzjyrdf Lima, Francisco Esmaile de Sales Detection of Alphacoronavirus in velvety free-tailed bats (Molossus molossus) and Brazilian free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) from urban area of Southern Brazil 2013-03-16 .txt text/plain 1784 88 55 A variety of other coronaviruses have been detected in many bat species from Asia, including specimens of the genus Rhinolophus, which were found to be infected with SARS-like CoV. In view of the potential role that bats may play in the transmission of new viral infections to humans and other species, this study was set up in search for coronavirus genomes in bats from the urban area of Porto Alegre (30°01 0 59 00 S; 51°13 0 48 00 W), a town with about 1.5 million inhabitants and capital of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. In our study, we detected RdRp sequences of bat CoV at a frequency of 19.33 % in the examined samples; such frequency is comparable to previous results obtained in similar studies from different bat species in other countries (ranging figure) . ./cache/cord-295554-0pzjyrdf.txt ./txt/cord-295554-0pzjyrdf.txt