@article{cf1e329e3b1b49d0a285f8307a438f2a,
title = "Detection and characterization of bat sarbecovirus phylogenetically related to SARS-CoV-2, Japan",
abstract = "Epidemiology of bat Betacoronavirus, subgenus Sarbecovirus is largely unknown, especially outside China. We detected a sarbecovirus phylogenetically related to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 from Rhinolophus cornutus bats in Japan. The sarbecovirus' spike protein specifically recognizes angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 of R. cornutus, but not humans, as an entry receptor.",
author = "Shin Murakami and Tomoya Kitamura and Jin Suzuki and Ryouta Sato and Toshiki Aoi and Marina Fujii and Hiromichi Matsugo and Haruhiko Kamiki and Hiroho Ishida and Akiko Takenaka-Uema and Masayuki Shimojima and Taisuke Horimoto",
note = "Funding Information: S.M. is supported by a Kakenhi Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (grant no. 17K19319). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). All rights reserved.",
year = "2020",
month = dec,
doi = "10.3368/CL.60.4.598",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "26",
pages = "3025--3029",
journal = "Emerging Infectious Diseases",
issn = "1080-6040",
publisher = "Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)",
number = "12",
}