Complete Genome Sequence of Vaccinia Virus Strain L-IVP

Alexander N Shvalov; Galina F Sivolobova; Elena V Kuligina; Galina V Kochneva

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00372-16

Complete Genome Sequence of Vaccinia Virus Strain L-IVP

Genome Announc. 2016 May 12;4(3):e00372-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00372-16.

Authors

Alexander N Shvalov¹, Galina F Sivolobova², Elena V Kuligina³, Galina V Kochneva⁴

Affiliations

¹ State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology "Vector," Koltsovo, Novosibirsk Region, Russia.
² State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology "Vector," Koltsovo, Novosibirsk Region, Russia Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia.
³ Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia.
⁴ State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology "Vector," Koltsovo, Novosibirsk Region, Russia Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia kochneva@vector.nsc.ru.

Abstract

Most of the live vaccine doses of vaccinia virus donated to the Intensified Smallpox Eradication Programme after 1971 were prepared using the L-IVP strain. A mixture of three clones of the L-IVP strain was sequenced using MySEQ. Consensus sequence similarity with the vaccinia virus Lister strain is 99.5%.