List of Coronavirus live isolates
This article aims at keeping an up-to-date list of Coronavirus strains and subspecies successfully isolated and cultured in laboratory, a task which is often challenging. When relevant it shall include a few synthetic chimera as well as some strains that were only propagated in laboratory animals.
Alphacoronavirus
- 229E
- NL63
- GX P2V
- PEDV, propagated in piglets, repeated passage in Vero cells, using Vero/TMPRSS2 and Vero/MSPL cells
- SADS
Tegacovirus
- TGEV PRCV
- Feline coronavirus
- Canine coronavirus.
- A recent recombinant CCoV-HuPn-2018 including a human case
Betacoronavirus
Merbecovirus
- HKU5 SARS-S chimera
- HKU5 and a MERS PDF-2180-S chimera, with trypsin
- Various MERS HKU4-RBD chimera
- HKU4
- MERS
- HKU4-like Pangolin Coronavirus
Embecovirus
- Bovine coronavirus
- Rabbit HKU14
- MHV
- OC43
- HKU1
- Parker rat coronavirus
- Dromedary camel HKU23
- Canine respiratory coronavirus
- Equine coronavirus
Sarbecovirus
- SARS
- HKU3 SARS-RBD synthetic recombinant
- bat-SL-CoV ZC45
- WIV1
- RsSHC014
- WIV16
- WIV1 Rs4874-S synthetic chimera
- Rs4874 and two synthetic chimera WIV1 Rs7237-S and WIV1 Rs4231-S
- SARS-CoV-2
- BANAL-236
- Pangolin Guangxi P2V
- Rco319, Rc-os20, Rc-mk2, Rc-kw8
- WIV1 Rs4081-S synthetic chimera. In the spike it is a member of clade 2.
- WIV1 RsSHC014-S1 chimera
- Two clade 1 viruses RsYN2012 and RsYN2016 and one clade 2 virus RsHuB2019 in Huh7 cells with trypsin.
- pangolin/Guangdong, in Vero cells, human organoids, hACE2 mice, hamsters
Gammacoronavirus
Deltacoronavirus
- Porcine deltacoronavirus HKU15 including a human case
- Parrot coronavirus