Complete Genome Sequences of Four European Subtype Strains of Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus from Eastern Siberia, Russia

Renat V Adelshin; Olga V Melnikova; Ludmila S Karan; Evgeny I Andaev; Sergey V Balakhonov

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00609-15

Complete Genome Sequences of Four European Subtype Strains of Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus from Eastern Siberia, Russia

Genome Announc. 2015 Jun 18;3(3):e00609-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00609-15.

Authors

Renat V Adelshin¹, Olga V Melnikova², Ludmila S Karan³, Evgeny I Andaev², Sergey V Balakhonov²

Affiliations

¹ Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and Far East, Rospotrebnadzor, Irkutsk, Russia Irkutsk State University, Irkutsk, Russia adelshin@gmail.com.
² Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and Far East, Rospotrebnadzor, Irkutsk, Russia.
³ Central Institute of Epidemiology, Rospotrebnadzor, Moscow, Russia.

Abstract

Three tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) strains were isolated from Ixodes persulcatus ticks, and one was isolated from a shrew in the territory of eastern Siberia (Russia). The level of sequence identity compared to Neudoerfl (the European prototype strain) is 97.2 to 97.3%.