RaTG13

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Proper noun

RaTG13

1. (virology) A SARSr-CoV-like Betacoronavirus that natively infects horseshoe bats first discovered in Yunnan, China, in 2013. One of the closest wild relatives to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

Synonyms

• BatCoV-RaTG13
• SARSr-Ra-BatCoV-RaTG13

Hypernyms

• Betacoronavirus
• Cornidovirineae
• Coronaviridae
• Coronavirinae
• Coronavirus
• CoV
• Orthocoronavirinae
• Orthocoronavirus
• Sarbecovirus
• Virus

Coordinate terms

(closest known relatives to SARS-CoV-2):

• BANAL-103
• BANAL-20-103
• BANAL-20-236
• BANAL-20-52
• BANAL-236
• BANAL-52
• RmYN02
• RpYN06

See also

• MERS-CoV
• MERSr-CoV
• SARS-CoV
• SARS-CoV-1
• SARS-CoV-2
• SARSr-CoV

(English-language terms concerning RaTG13):

• bat coronavirus
• betacoronavirus
• corona
• coronavirus
• orthocoronavirus
• sarbecovirus
• SARS-like

Further reading

• RaTG13 on Wikipedia.Wikipedia