Consensus Sequence of 27 African Horse Sickness Virus Genomes from Viruses Collected over a 76-Year Period (1933 to 2009)

A Christiaan Potgieter; Isabella M Wright; Alberdina A van Dijk

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00921-15

Consensus Sequence of 27 African Horse Sickness Virus Genomes from Viruses Collected over a 76-Year Period (1933 to 2009)

Genome Announc. 2015 Sep 10;3(5):e00921-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00921-15.

Authors

A Christiaan Potgieter¹, Isabella M Wright², Alberdina A van Dijk³

Affiliations

¹ OIE Reference Laboratories for African Horse Sickness Virus and Bluetongue Virus, Virology Division, ARC, Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, Onderstepoort, South Africa Biochemistry Division, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa christiaan@deltamune.co.za.
² OIE Reference Laboratories for African Horse Sickness Virus and Bluetongue Virus, Virology Division, ARC, Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, Onderstepoort, South Africa.
³ Biochemistry Division, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa.

Abstract

We announce the complete consensus genome sequence of 27 African horse sickness viruses, representing all nine African horse sickness virus (AHSV) serotypes from historical and recent isolates collected over a 76-year period (1933 to 2009). The data set includes the sequence of the virulent Office International des Epizooties AHSV reference strains which are not adapted to cell culture.