Complete Coding Genome Sequences of Uncommon GII.8 Sapovirus Strains Identified in Diarrhea Samples Collected from Peruvian Children

Emmanuel Kagning Tsinda; Rungnapa Malasao; Yuki Furuse; Robert H Gilman; Xiaofang Liu; Sonia Apaza; Susan Espetia; Vitaliano Cama; Hitoshi Oshitani; Mayuko Saito

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01137-17

Complete Coding Genome Sequences of Uncommon GII.8 Sapovirus Strains Identified in Diarrhea Samples Collected from Peruvian Children

Genome Announc. 2017 Oct 26;5(43):e01137-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01137-17.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Virology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.
² Tohoku University Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Sendai, Japan.
³ Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
⁴ Department of Cellular and Molecular Sciences, Infectious Diseases Research Laboratory, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru.
⁵ Instituto Nacional de Salud, Lima, Peru.
⁶ Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
⁷ Department of Virology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan msaitop@med.tohoku.ac.jp.

Abstract

We report here two complete coding genome sequences of novel genotype GII.8 sapovirus strains identified in diarrhea samples collected from two Peruvian children. The complete coding genome sequences of both GII.8 variants were determined using the Sanger sequencing method.

Abstract

Grants and funding