<unk>  (HCoV-OC43) is a member of the species Betacoronavirus 1, which infects humans and cattle. The infecting coronavirus is an enveloped, positive-sense, single-stranded RNA virus that enters its host cell by binding to the N-acetyl-9-O-acetylneuraminic acid receptor.<unk>  is one of seven coronaviruses known to infect humans. It is one of the viruses responsible for the common cold and may have been responsible for the 1889–1890 pandemic. It has, like other coronaviruses from genus Betacoronavirus, subgenus Embecovirus, an additional shorter spike protein called hemagglutinin esterase (HE).
Human coronavirus OC43
Human coronavirus HKU1
Human coronavirus NL63
Influenza D virus
Human coronavirus 229E
Chinese coronavirus
ZyCoV-D
SARS-CoV-2 Beta variant