Complete Genome Sequence of a Highly Divergent Dengue Virus Type 2 Strain, Imported into Australia from Sabah, Malaysia

Alyssa T Pyke; Bixing Huang; David Warrilow; Peter R Moore; Jamie McMahon; Bruce Harrower

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00546-17

Complete Genome Sequence of a Highly Divergent Dengue Virus Type 2 Strain, Imported into Australia from Sabah, Malaysia

Genome Announc. 2017 Jul 20;5(29):e00546-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00546-17.

Authors

Alyssa T Pyke¹, Bixing Huang², David Warrilow², Peter R Moore², Jamie McMahon², Bruce Harrower²

Affiliations

¹ Public Health Virology Laboratory, Forensic and Scientific Services, Coopers Plains, Queensland, Australia alyssa.pyke@health.qld.gov.au.
² Public Health Virology Laboratory, Forensic and Scientific Services, Coopers Plains, Queensland, Australia.

Abstract

In 2015, a female patient returning to Australia from Sabah, Malaysia, was diagnosed with a suspected sylvatic dengue virus type 2 (DENV-2) infection, becoming the second case of imported highly divergent dengue virus infection recorded in Australia. We describe here the complete genome sequencing of the DENV-2 strain isolated from this patient.