Genome Sequences of New Faustovirus Strains ST1 and LC9, Isolated from the South of France

Amina Cherif Louazani; Julien Andreani; Maryem Ouarhache; Sarah Aherfi; Emeline Baptiste; Anthony Levasseur; Bernard La Scola

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00613-17

Genome Sequences of New Faustovirus Strains ST1 and LC9, Isolated from the South of France

Genome Announc. 2017 Jul 13;5(28):e00613-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00613-17.

Authors

Amina Cherif Louazani¹, Julien Andreani¹, Maryem Ouarhache¹, Sarah Aherfi¹, Emeline Baptiste¹, Anthony Levasseur¹, Bernard La Scola²

Affiliations

¹ URMITE, Aix Marseille Université, UM63, CNRS 7278, IRD 198, INSERM 1095, IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France.
² URMITE, Aix Marseille Université, UM63, CNRS 7278, IRD 198, INSERM 1095, IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France bernard.la-scola@univ-amu.fr.

Abstract

Faustoviruses are amoeba-infecting giant viruses closely related to the Asfarviridae family. Here, we report the isolation, genome sequencing, and annotation of ST1 and LC9, two new strains belonging to lineages L and E9 of faustoviruses, currently represented by only one representative each.