The Viral & Human Genomics Laboratory interest in emerging infectious diseases and of the
risk that they represent begun in 2015. As of then, collaborations with the state of San
Luis PotosÃ's Livestock Protection and Promotion Commitee (CEFPP) allowed for the screeining
of 10 different exotic viral pathogens in wild bat populations that were either discovered
or removed by the CEFPP as part of the national rabies control strategy. Interest in the
subject arose from the lack of national data describing the presence and incidence of
arboviral diseases such as Zika, Chikungunya, West Nile, Dengue as well as of other
exotic pathogens like Arenavirus, Coronavirus, Rabies and Hantavirus capable of producing
unexpected outbreaks of great implications.
This section provides information and protocols derived from such research in an effort
to contribute to the expansion of creativity, scientific productivity and knowledge
through freely available and open-source data.
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SARS-Coronavirus alignments
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)-like betacoronavirus
RNA dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) encoding region (ORF1a/b) nucleotide sequence alignments
with PCR amplification and sequencing oligonucleotide map for confirmatory typing of qRT-PCR
identified samples.
SARS-Coronavirus sequencing strategy
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)-like
betacoronavirus RNA dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) encoding region (ORF1a/b) PCR amplification
and sequencing oligonucleotide map and contig assembly.
MERS-Coronavirus sequencing strategy
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS)-like
betacoronavirus RNA dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) encoding region (ORF1a/b) PCR amplification
and sequencing oligonucleotide map and contig assembly.
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