Genome Sequences of Three African Swine Fever Viruses of Genotypes I, III, and XXII from South Africa and Zambia, Isolated from Ornithodoros Soft Ticks

S Ndlovu; A-L Williamson; R Malesa; J van Heerden; C I Boshoff; A D S Bastos; L Heath; O Carulei

doi:10.1128/MRA.01376-19

Genome Sequences of Three African Swine Fever Viruses of Genotypes I, III, and XXII from South Africa and Zambia, Isolated from Ornithodoros Soft Ticks

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 Mar 5;9(10):e01376-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01376-19.

Authors

S Ndlovu^{1

2}, A-L Williamson^{1

3}, R Malesa², J van Heerden², C I Boshoff^{2

4

5}, A D S Bastos⁵, L Heath², O Carulei⁶

Affiliations

¹ Division of Medical Virology, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
² Agricultural Research Council-Onderstepoort Veterinary Research, Cape Town, South Africa.
³ Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
⁴ Tshwane University of Technology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Pretoria, South Africa.
⁵ University of Pretoria, Department of Zoology & Entomology, Pretoria, South Africa.
⁶ Division of Medical Virology, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa olivia.carulei@uct.ac.za.

Abstract

Here, we report the draft genome sequences of three African swine fever viruses isolated from Ornithodoros soft ticks. Isolates LIV 5/40 (Zambia), SPEC 57 (South Africa), and RSA/2/2008 (South Africa) belong to genotypes I, III, and XXII, respectively.