Complete Genome Sequences of Five Zika Virus Isolates

Jason T Ladner; Michael R Wiley; Karla Prieto; Chadwick Y Yasuda; Elyse Nagle; Matthew R Kasper; Daniel Reyes; Nikolaos Vasilakis; Vireak Heang; Scott C Weaver; Andrew Haddow; Robert B Tesh; Ly Sovann; Gustavo Palacios

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00377-16

Complete Genome Sequences of Five Zika Virus Isolates

Genome Announc. 2016 May 12;4(3):e00377-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00377-16.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Center for Genome Sciences, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Frederick, Maryland, USA.
² U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 2, Det Phnom Penh (NAMRU-2), Cambodia.
³ Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA.
⁴ Institute for Human Infections and Immunity, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA.
⁵ Division of Virology, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Frederick, Maryland, USA.
⁶ Communicable Disease Centre, Cambodian Ministry of Health, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
⁷ Center for Genome Sciences, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Frederick, Maryland, USA gustavo.f.palacios.ctr@mail.mil.

Abstract

Zika virus is an emerging human pathogen of great concern due to putative links to microcephaly and Guillain-Barre syndrome. Here, we report the complete genomes, including the 5' and 3' untranslated regions, of five Zika virus isolates, one from the Asian lineage and four from the African lineage.

Grants and funding

R24 AI120942/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States