Complete Genome Sequence of Buffalopox Virus

Babak Afrough; Afia Zafar; Rumina Hasan; Roger Hewson

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00444-18

Complete Genome Sequence of Buffalopox Virus

Genome Announc. 2018 May 24;6(21):e00444-18. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00444-18.

Authors

Babak Afrough¹, Afia Zafar², Rumina Hasan², Roger Hewson³

Affiliations

¹ National Infection Service Research, Public Health England, Porton Down, United Kingdom Babak.Afrough@phe.gov.uk.
² Department of Microbiology, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.
³ National Infection Service Research, Public Health England, Porton Down, United Kingdom.

Abstract

The first complete genome assembly of buffalopox virus isolate Karachi 2005, with a length of 195,630 bp, is presented here. Phylogenetic analysis shows the virus to cluster within Vaccinia species, and the genome contains 177 protein-coding sequences.