Coronaviruses in the Sea

Coronaviruses in the Sea

Ian Hewson, Gideon J. Mordecai

Interest in coronaviruses because of the 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has generated concern about their occurrence and persistence in aquatic habitats. Coronaviruses are not quantitatively significant constituents of marine virioplankton. Members of the Nidovirales (to which human coronaviruses belong) infect marine mammals, teleosts and possibly invertebrates, and human coronaviruses may persist in marine plankton receiving wastewater effluent. However, virions likely experience significant particle and infectivity decay rates in surface seawater, similar to other enveloped RNA viruses.

2020

coronavirus, Virome, disease, virioplankton, Nidovirales

10.3389/fmicb.2020.01795

Epidemiology and Health

Korean Society of Epidemiology

Microbiology