华南农业大学、岭南现代农业科学与技术广东省实验室沈永义教授、肖立华教授等科研人员联合中国人民解放军军事科学院军事医学研究院杨瑞馥研究员及广州动物园科研部陈武高级兽医师开展的最新研究表明，穿山甲为新型冠状病毒潜在中间宿主。这一最新发现将对新型冠状病毒的源头防控具有重大意义 #nCoV2019
The latest research conducted by South China Agricultural University, Lingnan Modern Agricultural Science and Technology Guangdong Provincial Laboratory, Professor Shen Yongyi, and Professor Xiao Lihua, 1/3
together with Researcher Yang Ruiyu from the Military Medical Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Military Sciences and Chen Wu Senior Veterinarian of the Guangzhou Zoo Research Department, 2/3
shows Pangolin is a potential intermediate host for a new coronavirus. This latest discovery will have significant implications for the prevention and control of the origin of the new coronavirus. 3/3
Source from official Southern China Agricultural University Wechat blog: mp.weixin.qq.com/s/TyGPZ7ZHFEvE…
"团队通过分析1000多份宏基因组样品，锁定穿山甲为新型冠状病毒的潜在中间宿主；继而通过分子生物学检测，揭示穿山甲中β冠状病毒的阳性率为70%；进一步对病毒进行分离鉴定，电镜下观察到典型的冠状病毒颗粒结构；最后通过对病毒的基因组分析，发现分离的病毒株与目前感染人的毒株序列相似度高达99%"
"The team analyzed more than 1,000 metagenomic samples and identified pangolins as potential intermediate hosts of the new coronavirus; then, through molecular biological testing, it revealed that the positive rate of beta coronavirus in pangolins was 70%; " 1/2
"further isolate and identify the virus, electron microscopy shows typical coronavirus particle structure. By analyzing the genome of the virus, they found the sequence similarity between the isolated virus strain and the currently infected human strain is as high as 99%" 1/2
Note that I can not confirm anything, because they released their results through a press conference and the genome is not released yet. So please keep that in mind.
Note a previous analysis (31 Jan) on Virological that hints links to Malayan pangolins : virological.org/t/ncov-2019-sp…
