Canine coronavirus HuPn-2018
Species of canine coronavirus
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Canine coronavirus HuPn-2018, or CCoV-HuPn-2018, is a virus first discovered in a surveillance study in Sarawak, Malaysia, in hospitalized human pneumonia patients.[1] It may be the eighth coronavirus known to cause disease in humans, but no human-to-human transmission has been seen.[1] This is a canine-feline recombinant alphacoronavirus (genotype II) related to the CCoV-II strain of Alphacoronavirus suis with part of the FCoV in S2 domain and a specific 12 amino acids deletion in the N protein.[1]
| Canine coronavirus HuPn-2018 | |
|---|---|
Virus classification  | |
| (unranked): | Virus |
| Realm: | Riboviria |
| Kingdom: | Orthornavirae |
| Phylum: | Pisuviricota |
| Class: | Pisoniviricetes |
| Order: | Nidovirales |
| Family: | Coronaviridae |
| Genus: | Alphacoronavirus |
| Subgenus: | Tegacovirus |
| Species: | |
| Virus: | Canine coronavirus HuPn-2018 |
CCoV-HuPn-2018 was later seen in a University of Florida researcher who had just returned from Haiti.[2]