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cord-294138-h7sfd1wa	McIver, David J.	Coronavirus surveillance of wildlife in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic detects viral RNA in rodents	2020-06-01		.txt	text/plain	2780	130	56	Both countries were involved in the United States Agency for International Development's (USAID) Emerging Pandemic Threats PREDICT program, and surveillance of bats in wildlife markets in rural areas in Laos using family-level PCR assays revealed the presence of CoV RNA in 41 animals [5] . Considering the significant interactions of wildlife and especially rodents with humans in Laos, we were interested in investigating the presence of CoVs in these animals, which can be primary or intermediate hosts for CoVs with zoonotic potential. Since there are abundant contact opportunities for wildlife pathogens and humans in Laos, and considering that coronavirus-zoonotic events can involve intermediate hosts, as in the cases of SARS and MERS, we focused our screening on non-bat species potentially capable of playing that role. It is worth noting that we targeted rodents most likely to be in contact with humans and transmit virus and found fewer CoV-RNA-positive animals than in other studies of rodents in the region or elsewhere.	./cache/cord-294138-h7sfd1wa.txt	./txt/cord-294138-h7sfd1wa.txt