Genome Sequence of Influenza B Epidemic Strain B/Almaty/8/2018

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2022 Oct 20;11(10):e0054422. doi: 10.1128/mra.00544-22. Epub 2022 Sep 22.

Abstract

An influenza virus strain, B/Almaty/8/2018, was isolated in Almaty (in southeastern Kazakhstan) during a human population surveillance study in 2018. Here, we present the nearly complete genome sequence of this epidemic strain, compared to the Yamagata-like and Victoria-like variants of the influenza B virus.