Pangolin merbecovirus gets down to (poly)basics.

Cell

Department of Infectious Disease, King's College London, London, UK. Electronic address:

Published: February 2023

Trafficking of live mammals is considered a major risk for emergence of zoonotic viruses. SARS-CoV-2-related coronaviruses have previously been identified in pangolins, the world's most smuggled mammal. A new study identifies a MERS-related coronavirus in trafficked pangolins with broad mammalian tropism and a newly acquired furin cleavage site in Spike.

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