R.sinicus should be reservoir of SL-CoV but not SARS-CoV:critical comments on Ge et al.'s paper in Nature

• 作者: BernardCKCHOI GAOJie SUHai-Xia XUDe-Zhong XURui ZHANGJing-Xia ZHANGLei
• 来源期刊: 医学争鸣
• 年，卷（期）: 2014,（2）
• 所属期刊栏目: 学术争鸣
• 页码范围: 25-27
• 页数: 3页
• 语种: 中文
• DOI: 10.13276/j.issn.1674-8913.2014.02.005

摘要

The study of the origin of SARS coronavirus (SARS CoV) and SARS-like coronavirus (SL-CoV) is very important for the prevention of novel human infections with these viruses.Recently,Ge et al.suggest that Chinese horseshoe bats are natural reservoirs of SARS-CoV [1].But this conclusion is incorrect.It should be "Chinese horseshoe bats are natural reservoirs of SL-CoV" [2-7].The paper also has several methodological problems,leading to errors in the conclusions.