Complete Genome Sequence of Bluetongue Virus Serotype 1 Circulating in Italy, Obtained through a Fast Next-Generation Sequencing Protocol

Alessio Lorusso; Maurilia Marcacci; Massimo Ancora; Iolanda Mangone; Alessandra Leone; Valeria Marini; Cesare Cammà; Giovanni Savini

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00093-14

Complete Genome Sequence of Bluetongue Virus Serotype 1 Circulating in Italy, Obtained through a Fast Next-Generation Sequencing Protocol

Genome Announc. 2014 Feb 13;2(1):e00093-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00093-14.

Authors

Alessio Lorusso¹, Maurilia Marcacci, Massimo Ancora, Iolanda Mangone, Alessandra Leone, Valeria Marini, Cesare Cammà, Giovanni Savini

Affiliation

¹ OIE Reference Laboratory for Bluetongue, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell'Abruzzo e Molise G. Caporale, Teramo, Italy.

Abstract

A field strain of the bluetongue virus serotype 1 (BTV-1) was isolated from infected sheep in Sardinia, Italy, in October 2013. The genome was sequenced using Ion Torrent technology. BTV-1 strain SAD2013 belongs to the Western topotype of BTV-1, clustering with BTV-1 strains isolated in Europe and northern Africa since 2006.