Genome Sequences of a Novel Strain of Big Cypress Orbivirus Isolated from a Dead Florida White-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus)

Mohammad Shamim Ahasan; Juan M Campos Krauer; Kuttichantran Subramaniam; John A Lednicky; Julia C Loeb; Katherine A Sayler; Samantha M Wisely; Thomas B Waltzek

doi:10.1128/MRA.01717-18

Genome Sequences of a Novel Strain of Big Cypress Orbivirus Isolated from a Dead Florida White-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus)

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 Mar 14;8(11):e01717-18. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01717-18.

Authors

Mohammad Shamim Ahasan^{1

2

3}, Juan M Campos Krauer^{4

5}, Kuttichantran Subramaniam^{1

2}, John A Lednicky^{2

6}, Julia C Loeb^{2

6}, Katherine A Sayler⁵, Samantha M Wisely⁵, Thomas B Waltzek^{7

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
² Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
³ Faculty of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University, Dinajpur, Rangpur, Bangladesh.
⁴ Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
⁵ Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
⁶ Department of Environmental and Global Health, College of Public Health and Health Professions, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
⁷ Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA tbwaltzek@ufl.edu.

Abstract

Here, we report the coding sequences of Big Cypress orbivirus isolated from a dead white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) from Florida in 2017. To our knowledge, this is the first detection of Big Cypress orbivirus in a vertebrate host.