Genomic Characterization of an Echovirus 7 Isolate of Southeast Asian Ancestry Recovered from a Child in Nigeria with Acute Flaccid Paralysis

T O C Faleye; O M Adewumi; J A Adeniji

doi:10.1128/MRA.00830-19

Genomic Characterization of an Echovirus 7 Isolate of Southeast Asian Ancestry Recovered from a Child in Nigeria with Acute Flaccid Paralysis

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 Aug 15;8(33):e00830-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00830-19.

Authors

T O C Faleye^{1

2}, O M Adewumi³, J A Adeniji^{1

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Virology, College of Medicine, Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
² Center for Human Virology and Genomics, Microbiology Department, Nigerian Institute of Medical Research, Lagos, Nigeria.
³ Department of Virology, College of Medicine, Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria adewumi1@hotmail.com.
⁴ WHO National Polio Laboratory, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.

Abstract

Here, we describe the genome of an echovirus 7 (E7) isolate of Southeast Asian ancestry recovered from a child in Nigeria with acute flaccid paralysis (AFP). The genome has 7,295 nucleotides (nt) and an open reading frame (ORF) with 2,195 amino acids.