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Public health: Broad reception for coronavirus
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Public health: Broad reception for coronavirus

Tom Gallagher and Stanley Perlman
Nature, Vol.495(7440), pp.176-177
03/14/2013
DOI: 10.1038/495176a
PMCID: PMC7095116
PMID: 23486053
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https://doi.org/10.1038/495176aView
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Abstract

The discovery that a new coronavirus associated with lethal respiratory infections binds to an evolutionarily conserved receptor on airway cells suggests that direct transmission from bats to humans may occur.
Coronavirus - classification Dipeptidyl Peptidase 4 - metabolism Animals Coronavirus - metabolism Receptors, Virus - metabolism Humans

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