id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-347532-n51qv9pp Wacharapluesadee, Supaporn Group C Betacoronavirus in Bat Guano Fertilizer, Thailand 2013-08-17 .txt text/plain 1191 71 54 To the Editor: Bats play a critical role in the transmission and origin of zoonotic diseases, primarily viral zoonoses associated with high casefatality rates, including those caused by Nipah virus (NiV) and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-like coronavirus (CoV) infections (1) . To assess pathogens in bat guano, we examined bat guano from a cave in the Khao Chong Phran Non-hunting Area (KCP-NHA) in Ratchaburi Province, Thailand, where bat guano was sold as agricultural fertilizer, for the presence of NiV, CoV, and H. The detection of CoVs in bat guano from the KCP-NHA cave in Ratchaburi was consistent with the previous finding of alphacoronavirus from Hipposideros armiger bats from the same province in 2007, but those researchers tested fresh bat feces (9) . Duplex nested RT-PCR for detection of Nipah virus RNA from urine specimens of bats ./cache/cord-347532-n51qv9pp.txt ./txt/cord-347532-n51qv9pp.txt