Dong, Tianyi
Wang, Qi
Que, Tengcheng
Si, Haorui
Su, Jia
Chen, Ying
Yang, Kaixin
Li, Cong
Qin, Mengjie
Li, Bei
Zhu, Yan
Li, Shousheng
Li, Yingjiao
He, Meihong
Zhong, Yanli
Xiao, Qingyu
Hu, Ben
Zeng, Leiping
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Key Research and Development Program of China (2022YFC2305100)
the Major Project of Guangzhou Laboratory (GZNL2023A01001)
Open Research Fund Program of CAS Key Laboratory of Special Pathogens and Biosafety, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2020SPCAS001)
Article History
Received: 21 May 2025
Accepted: 4 November 2025
First Online: 22 December 2025
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: A batch of smuggled pangolins were intercepted by Chinese customs and transported to the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Land Wildlife Medical Rescue and Epidemic Surveillance Research Center after rescued under ethical approval. Samples including 83 oral swabs and 81 anal swabs were collected from 83 healthy pangolins, transported and stored following standard procedures according to the animal ethics permit (WIVA05201705) issued by the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.