Genome Sequences of Three Vaccine Strains and Two Wild-Type Canine Distemper Virus Strains from a Recent Disease Outbreak in South Africa

Angelika K Loots; Morné Du Plessis; Desiré Lee Dalton; Emily Mitchell; Estelle H Venter

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00603-17

Genome Sequences of Three Vaccine Strains and Two Wild-Type Canine Distemper Virus Strains from a Recent Disease Outbreak in South Africa

Genome Announc. 2017 Jul 6;5(27):e00603-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00603-17.

Authors

Angelika K Loots^{1

2}, Morné Du Plessis^{1

3}, Desiré Lee Dalton^{4

5}, Emily Mitchell¹, Estelle H Venter^{2

6}

Affiliations

¹ National Zoological Gardens of South Africa, Gauteng, South Africa.
² Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, Onderstepoort, South Africa.
³ Department of Biotechnology, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa.
⁴ National Zoological Gardens of South Africa, Gauteng, South Africa desire@nzg.ac.za.
⁵ Department of Zoology, University of Venda, Thohoyandou, South Africa.
⁶ College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia.

Abstract

Canine distemper virus causes global multihost infectious disease. This report details complete genome sequences of three vaccine and two new wild-type strains. The wild-type strains belong to the South African lineage, and all three vaccine strains to the America 1 lineage. This constitutes the first genomic sequences of this virus from South Africa.