Complete Genome Sequence of a Chinese Highly Pathogenic Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus That Has a Further Deletion in the Nsp2 Gene

Guobiao Ji; Yingying Li; Feifei Tan; Jinshan Zhuang; Xiangdong Li; Kegong Tian

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01770-15

Complete Genome Sequence of a Chinese Highly Pathogenic Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus That Has a Further Deletion in the Nsp2 Gene

Genome Announc. 2016 Feb 18;4(1):e01770-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01770-15.

Authors

Guobiao Ji¹, Yingying Li¹, Feifei Tan¹, Jinshan Zhuang¹, Xiangdong Li², Kegong Tian³

Affiliations

¹ National Research Center for Veterinary Medicine, High-Tech District, Luoyang, People's Republic of China.
² National Research Center for Veterinary Medicine, High-Tech District, Luoyang, People's Republic of China xiaonanzhong@163.com tiankg@263.net.
³ College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, People's Republic of China National Research Center for Veterinary Medicine, High-Tech District, Luoyang, People's Republic of China Veterinary Diagnosis Center and OIE Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Laboratory, China Animal Disease Control Center, Chaoyang District, Beijing, People's Republic of China xiaonanzhong@163.com tiankg@263.net.

Abstract

Here, we report the complete genome of a Chinese highly pathogenic porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (HP-PRRSV) characterized by a further 29-amino acid (87 nucleotides) deletion in its Nsp2-coding region compared to the prototype of the HP-PRRSV JXA1 strain.