The results revealed the presence of M-CoV RNA in the population of the house mouse Mus musculus in the urban environments of El Hierro, Tenerife and Lanzarote. Photo: Pilar Foronda (Universitat de La Laguna)
The results revealed the presence of M-CoV RNA in the population of the house mouse Mus musculus in the urban environments of El Hierro, Tenerife and Lanzarote. Photo: Pilar Foronda (Universitat de La Laguna) - A study published in Frontiers in Veterinary Science reveals the presence of murine coronavirus -the murine hepatitis virus or M-CoV- in mice of the Canary archipelago that could have reached the islands by maritime transport from the European continent. This is the first ecoepidemiological study to examine the presence of coronaviruses that circulate in mice and rats of the natural and urban environment of the islands of La Palma, El Hierro, Tenerife and Lanzarote. The study is led by Jordi Serra-Cobo, lecturer at the Faculty of Biology and member of the Biodiversity Research Institute ( IRBio ) of the University of Barcelona, and counts on the participation of teams from the Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences and the University Institute of Tropical Diseases and Healthcare of the University of La Laguna , among other institutions. M-CoV: a virus studied in laboratory mice The pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 has placed coronaviruses at the focus of an intense research activity worldwide. Over the last years, five new coronaviruses have been identified: SARS-CoV, HCoV-NL63, HCoV-HKU1, MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2. These viruses have been identified as viruses able to cause respiratory pathologies in humans.
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