Novel Viruses Isolated from Mosquitoes in Pantanal, Brazil

Alex Pauvolid-Corrêa; Owen Solberg; Dinair Couto-Lima; Rita Maria Nogueira; Stanley Langevin; Nicholas Komar

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01195-16

Novel Viruses Isolated from Mosquitoes in Pantanal, Brazil

Genome Announc. 2016 Nov 3;4(6):e01195-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01195-16.

Authors

Alex Pauvolid-Corrêa¹, Owen Solberg², Dinair Couto-Lima³, Rita Maria Nogueira³, Stanley Langevin², Nicholas Komar¹

Affiliations

¹ Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Fort Collins, Colorado, USA pauvolid@gmail.com nck6@cdc.gov.
² Systems Biology Department, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California, USA.
³ Laboratório de Flavivírus, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz), Ministério da Saúde, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Abstract

Genomic sequences are described from five novel viruses and divergent strains of Brejeira and Guaico Culex viruses from mosquitoes collected in Pantanal, Brazil, in 2010.

Grants and funding

This work was funded through institutional support of the authors, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Sandia National Laboratories’ Laboratory–Directed Research and Development program. Sandia is a multiprogram laboratory managed and operated by Sandia Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation, for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-AC04-94AL85000. The efforts of Alex Pauvolid-Corrêa were funded by Science without Borders Program, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), Government of Brazil.