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Herbert F. Jelinek1,2,3
Mira Mousa4
Eman Alefishat1,5,6
Wael Osman7
Ian Spence8
Dengpan Bu9
Samuel F. Feng1,10
Jason Byrd11Paola A. Magni12,13
Shafi Sahibzada14
Guan K. Tay1,15,16
Habiba S. Alsafar1,2,17*- 1Center for Biotechnology, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- 2Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- 3Center of Heath Engineering Innovation, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- 4Nuffield Department of Women's and Reproduction Health, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom
- 5Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- 6Department of Biopharmaceutics and Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan
- 7Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- 8Discipline of Pharmacology, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- 9State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Beijing, China
- 10Department of Mathematics, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- 11Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
- 12Discipline of Medical, Molecular and Forensic Sciences, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA, Australia
- 13Murdoch University Singapore, King's Centre, Singapore, Singapore
- 14Antimicrobial Resistance and Infectious Diseases Laboratory, College of Science, Health, Engineering and Education, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA, Australia
- 15Division of Psychiatry, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia
- 16School of Medical and Health Sciences, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, WA, Australia
- 17Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
A corrigendum on
Evolution, ecology, and zoonotic transmission of betacoronaviruses: A review
by Jelinek, H. F., Mousa, M., Alefishat, E., Osman, W., Spence, I., Bu, D., Feng, S. F., Byrd, J., Magni, P. A., Sahibzada, S., Tay, G. K., and Alsafar, H. S. (2021). Front. Vet. Sci. 8:644414. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2021.644414
In the published article, Plowright et al. (2017) was not cited in the article. The citation has now been inserted in the Introduction, First Paragraph and the updated reference list appears below.
“The emergence of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, has focused attention on the phenomenon of zoonosis. Zoonoses, as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO), are diseases and infections which are naturally transmitted between vertebrate animals and humans. The challenge with emerging zoonoses, such as SARS-CoV-2, is to establish the origin and mechanism(s) of transmission of the new disease. Viral mutation and recombination, viral host physiology and immune response, ecogeography, and human factors including ACE2 receptor structure and immune function have all been proposed as possible mechanisms (1, 2) (Figure 1).”
The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.
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References
1. Yadav T, Saxena SK. Transmission cycle of SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2. In:Saxena SK, , editor. Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): Epidemiology, Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, and Therapeutics. Singapore: Springer Science and Business Media, LLC (2020). p. 33–42. doi: 10.1007/978-981-15-4814-7_4
Keywords: zoonoses, coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, zoonotic transmission, ecology, evolution, reservoir species
Citation: Jelinek HF, Mousa M, Alefishat E, Osman W, Spence I, Bu D, Feng SF, Byrd J, Magni PA, Sahibzada S, Tay GK and Alsafar HS (2023) Corrigendum: Evolution, ecology, and zoonotic transmission of betacoronaviruses: A review. Front. Vet. Sci. 10:1147940. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2023.1147940
Received: 19 January 2023; Accepted: 27 January 2023;
Published: 08 February 2023.
Edited and reviewed by: Andres M. Perez, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, United States
Copyright © 2023 Jelinek, Mousa, Alefishat, Osman, Spence, Bu, Feng, Byrd, Magni, Sahibzada, Tay and Alsafar. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
*Correspondence: Habiba S. Alsafar, 
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