key: cord-0895930-tjeo62dv
authors: da Silva, Priscilla Gomes; Mesquita, João Rodrigo; de São José Nascimento, Maria; Ferreira, Vanessa Andreia Martins
title: Corrigendum to “Viral, host and environmental factors that favor anthropozoonotic spillover of coronaviruses: An opinionated review, focusing on SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2”[Sci. Total Environ. 750 (2021) 141483]
date: 2020-09-10
journal: Sci Total Environ
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.142123
sha: d8025bbc117242123c47fd28093f72ed9a81b881
doc_id: 895930
cord_uid: tjeo62dv

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In the second paragraph of Section 2.1, we note that we made a mistake regarding the information given in this part. We confused the information regarding the bat species and the bat-coronavirus strain related SARS-CoV-2 with the bat species and the bat-coronavirus strain related to SARS-CoV-1. SARS-CoV-2 indeed shares 96.2% nucleotide homology with a bat-coronavirus (RaTG13) that was isolated from the bat species Rhinolophus affinis (Cui et al., 2019) , not SARS-CoV-1. Moreover, the HeLa cells were used in a virus infectivity study with SARS-CoV-2, not SARS-CoV-1. In this study, HeLa cells that expressed or did not express ACE2 proteins from humans, Chinese horseshoe bats, civets, pigs and mice were used, and it was found that SARS-CoV-2 is able to use all ACE2 proteins (except for mouse ACE2) as an entry receptor to enter ACE2-expressing cells, but it could not enter cells that did not express ACE2, indicating that ACE2 is probably the cell receptor through which SARS-CoV-2 enters cells (Zhou et al., 2020) . That being said, the reformulated paragraph with the correct information is as follows:

"On later studies, a bat-coronavirus closely-related to SARS-CoV-1, named SARS-related Rhinolophus bat CoV HKU3 (SARSr-Rh-BatCoV HKU3), was isolated from Chinese horseshoe bats (Rhinolophus sinicus) (Lau et al., 2005) . This and other bat-coronaviruses share 88-92% nucleotide sequence homology with SARS-CoV-1 (Ye et al., 2020) , leading scientists to believe that SARS-CoV was transmitted directly to humans from wet market civets, with bats as the main reservoir hosts (Cui et al., 2019; Hu et al., 2017) ".

Origin and evolution of pathogenic coronaviruses

Discovery of a rich gene pool of bat SARS-related coronaviruses provides new insights into the origin of SARS coronavirus

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-like virus in Chinese horseshoe bats

Zoonotic origins of human coronaviruses

A pneumonia outbreak associated with a new coronavirus of probable bat origin

The authors regret that the printed version of the above article contained a number of errors. The correct and final version follows. The authors would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused. Please note that none of these changes impact on the conclusions made by the paper but are necessary to correct for accuracy.