First Whole-Genome Characterization of Avian Nephritis Virus 2 of Broiler Chicken from Pará, Brazil

Ceyla Maria Oeiras Castro; Elaine Hellen Nunes Chagas; Delana Andreza Melo Bezerra; Sandro Patroca da Silva; Ana Cecília Ribeiro Cruz; Edivaldo Costa Sousa Júnior; René Ribeiro Silva; Hugo Reis Resque; Yvone Benchimol Gabbay; Joana D'Arc Pereira Mascarenhas

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00510-18

First Whole-Genome Characterization of Avian Nephritis Virus 2 of Broiler Chicken from Pará, Brazil

Genome Announc. 2018 Jun 21;6(25):e00510-18. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00510-18.

Affiliations

¹ Section of Virology, Evandro Chagas Institute, Ministry of Health, Ananindeua, Brazil.
² Section of Arbovirology and Hemorrhagic Fevers, Evandro Chagas Institute, Ministry of Health, Ananindeua, Brazil.
³ Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Pará, Belém, Brazil.
⁴ Section of Virology, Evandro Chagas Institute, Ministry of Health, Ananindeua, Brazil joanamascarenhas@iec.pa.gov.br.

Abstract

Our results show the first full-genome characterization of avian nephritis virus 2 recovered from stools of broiler chickens at a commercial farm located in Benevides, Pará, Brazil. Nucleotide analyses of whole-genome sequences showed the isolate to be a strain of Avastrovirus 2 in the family Astroviridae.