Genome Sequences of Murine Pneumotropic Virus (Polyomaviridae) Detected in Wild House Mice (Mus musculus)

Nicole Ben Salem; Ugo Moens; Bernhard Ehlers

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01545-15

Genome Sequences of Murine Pneumotropic Virus (Polyomaviridae) Detected in Wild House Mice (Mus musculus)

Genome Announc. 2016 Jan 21;4(1):e01545-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01545-15.

Authors

Nicole Ben Salem¹, Ugo Moens², Bernhard Ehlers³

Affiliations

¹ Division 12 "Measles, Mumps, Rubella and Viruses Affecting Immunocompromised Patients," Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany.
² Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Medical Biology, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway.
³ Division 12 "Measles, Mumps, Rubella and Viruses Affecting Immunocompromised Patients," Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany ehlers@rki.de.

Abstract

Using generic PCR, we identified a variant of murine pneumotropic virus (MptV) (family Polyomaviridae) in 3 wild house mice (Mus musculus). The fully amplified and sequenced genomes display considerable differences from the MptV genomes published previously and enlighten us on the natural diversity of rodent polyomaviruses.