Genome Sequence of an Unknown Subtype of Hepatitis C Virus Genotype 6: Another Piece for the Taxonomic Puzzle

Martin Schou Pedersen; Sarah Mollerup; Lone Gilmor Nielsen; Håvard Jenssen; Jens Bukh; Kristian Schønning

doi:10.1128/MRA.01030-19

Genome Sequence of an Unknown Subtype of Hepatitis C Virus Genotype 6: Another Piece for the Taxonomic Puzzle

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 Oct 17;8(42):e01030-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01030-19.

Authors

Martin Schou Pedersen^{1

2

3

4}, Sarah Mollerup¹, Lone Gilmor Nielsen¹, Håvard Jenssen², Jens Bukh^{3

4}, Kristian Schønning^{5

6}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Clinical Microbiology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark.
² Department of Science and Environment, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark.
³ Copenhagen Hepatitis C Program (CO-HEP), Department of Infectious Diseases, Copenhagen University Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark.
⁴ Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
⁵ Department of Clinical Microbiology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark Kristian.schoenning@regionh.dk.
⁶ Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Abstract

The surveillance and correct subtyping of hepatitis C virus strains require available and up-to-date publicly available reference genomes. Here, we present the complete open reading frame sequence of a hepatitis C virus genotype 6 strain of an unknown subtype that was discovered during routine subtyping of patients in the clinic.