Alert on a Novel South American Bat Coronavirus with a Furin-Cleavage Site: A One Health Early Warning
Lucas Alves da Mota Santana, Lara Góis Floresta, Êmilly Victória Maciel Alves, Breno Ferreira Barbosa, Graziane Ribeiro Couto, Marcos Antônio Lima dos Santos, Pedro Henrique Macedo Moura, Deise Maria Rego Rodrigues Silva, Marina dos Santos Barreto, Carlos Eduardo Palanch Repeke, Regiane Cristina do Amaral, Virgínia Kelma dos Santos Silva, Cleverson Luciano Trento, Wilton Mitsunari Takeshita, Dalmo Correia, Rajiv Gandhi Gopalsamy, Lysandro Pinto Borges · 2026
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Description
Lucas Alves da Mota Santana and colleagues wrote a 2026 letter alerting readers to a new bat coronavirus in South America. The virus, found in a Neotropical bat species, carries a furin cleavage site, a molecular notch that helps viruses enter cells more easily. That feature was once thought limited to Old World bat virus lines.
The letter reviews why the notch matters: it boosts cell entry and spread in related viruses, and removing it weakens them in lab animals. Over 180 bat coronaviruses were already known across the Americas, none with this feature. The authors link the find to habitat damage, which stresses bats and raises shedding. They call for a One Health system joining human testing, virus genome tracking, and animal ecology before spillover, not after.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Lucas Alves da Mota Santana, Lara Góis Floresta, Êmilly Victória Maciel Alves, Breno Ferreira Barbosa, Graziane Ribeiro Couto, Marcos Antônio Lima dos Santos, Pedro Henrique Macedo Moura, Deise Maria Rego Rodrigues Silva, Marina dos Santos Barreto, Carlos Eduardo Palanch Repeke, Regiane Cristina do Amaral, Virgínia Kelma dos Santos Silva, Cleverson Luciano Trento, Wilton Mitsunari Takeshita, Dalmo Correia, Rajiv Gandhi Gopalsamy, Lysandro Pinto Borges |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 5861 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |