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

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 SARSCoV[1].But this conclusion is incorrect.It should be"Chinese horseshoe bats are natural reservoirs of SLCoV"[2-7].The paper also has several methodological problems,leading to errors in the conclusions.