Sequences of Zika Virus Genomes from a Pediatric Cohort in Nicaragua

Lauren M Oldfield; Nadia Fedorova; Vinita Puri; Susmita Shrivastava; Paolo Amedeo; Alan Durbin; Iara Rocchi; Torrey Williams; Reed S Shabman; Gene S Tan; Angel Balmaseda; Guillermina Kuan; Saira Saborio; Aubree Gordon; Eva Harris; Brett E Pickett

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00498-18

Sequences of Zika Virus Genomes from a Pediatric Cohort in Nicaragua

Genome Announc. 2018 Jun 14;6(24):e00498-18. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00498-18.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, USA.
² J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, California, USA.
³ Laboratorio Nacional de Virología, Centro Nacional de Diagnóstico y Referencia, Ministry of Health, Managua, Nicaragua.
⁴ Centro de Salud Sócrates Flores Vivas, Ministry of Health, Managua, Nicaragua.
⁵ Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
⁶ Division of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA.
⁷ J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, USA bpickett@jcvi.org.

Abstract

We report here the whole-genome sequence of 11 Zika virus (ZIKV) samples from six pediatric patients in Nicaragua. Serum samples were collected, and ZIKV was isolated in tissue culture. Both serum and virus isolates were sequenced. The consensus ZIKV genomes are greater than 99% identical to each other.

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