Genome Sequence of Bovine Polyomavirus 1 Detected in a Salers Cow (Bos taurus) from Catalonia, Spain

Nicole Ben Salem; Bernat Pérez de Val; Maite Martin; Ugo Moens; Bernhard Ehlers

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01658-15

Genome Sequence of Bovine Polyomavirus 1 Detected in a Salers Cow (Bos taurus) from Catalonia, Spain

Genome Announc. 2016 Jan 28;4(1):e01658-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01658-15.

Authors

Nicole Ben Salem¹, Bernat Pérez de Val², Maite Martin², Ugo Moens³, Bernhard Ehlers⁴

Affiliations

¹ Division 12 "Measles, Mumps, Rubella and Viruses Affecting Immunocompromised Patients," Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany.
² Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal (CReSA), Institut de Recerca i Tecnologia Agroalimentàries (IRTA), Campus UAB, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
³ University of Tromsø, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Medical Biology, Tromsø, Norway.
⁴ Division 12 "Measles, Mumps, Rubella and Viruses Affecting Immunocompromised Patients," Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany ehlers@rki.de.

Abstract

We identified a variant of the first bovine polyomavirus (BPyV1; family Polyomaviridae) in a lymph node of a Salers cow. As the 2 previously published genome sequences of this virus originated from fetal bovine serum and ground beef, respectively, this is the first BPyV1 genome that could be traced back to an individual.