Genome Sequences of RIGVIR Oncolytic Virotherapy Virus and Five Other Echovirus 7 Isolates

Eero Hietanen; Teemu Smura; Marika Hakanen; Jira Chansaenroj; Pirjo Merilahti; Janne Nevalainen; Sunita Pandey; Satu Koskinen; Lav Tripathi; Yong Poovorawan; Juha Pursiheimo; Petri Susi

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00317-18

Genome Sequences of RIGVIR Oncolytic Virotherapy Virus and Five Other Echovirus 7 Isolates

Genome Announc. 2018 Apr 26;6(17):e00317-18. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00317-18.

Authors

Eero Hietanen¹, Teemu Smura², Marika Hakanen¹, Jira Chansaenroj^{1

3}, Pirjo Merilahti^{1

4}, Janne Nevalainen¹, Sunita Pandey¹, Satu Koskinen¹, Lav Tripathi¹, Yong Poovorawan³, Juha Pursiheimo¹, Petri Susi^{5

4}

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Biomedicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
² Medicum, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
³ Center of Excellence in Clinical Virology, Department of Paediatrics, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
⁴ Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland.
⁵ Institute of Biomedicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland pesusi@utu.fi.

Abstract

We report here the nearly complete Illumina-sequenced consensus genome sequences of six isolates of echovirus 7 (E7), including oncolytic virotherapy virus RIGVIR and the Wallace prototype. Amino acid identities within the coding region were highly conserved across all isolates, ranging from 95.31% to 99.73%.