Rhesus Monkey Rhadinovirus Isolated from Hemangioma Tissue

Armin Ensser; Koji Yasuda; William Lauer; Ronald C Desrosiers; Alexander S Hahn

doi:10.1128/MRA.01347-19

Rhesus Monkey Rhadinovirus Isolated from Hemangioma Tissue

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 Mar 19;9(12):e01347-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01347-19.

Authors

Armin Ensser¹, Koji Yasuda², William Lauer^{2

3}, Ronald C Desrosiers^{2

3}, Alexander S Hahn^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Clinical and Molecular Virology, Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany.
² New England Primate Research Center, Southborough, Massachusetts, USA.
³ Department of Pathology, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA.
⁴ New England Primate Research Center, Southborough, Massachusetts, USA ahahn@dpz.eu.
⁵ Junior Research Group Herpesviruses, German Primate Center-Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, Göttingen, Germany.

Abstract

We isolated a rhesus monkey rhadinovirus, isolate RRVmmu 209-07, from hemangioma tissue. The virion DNA was sequenced by Illumina-based sequencing. Isolate RRVmmu 209-07 is highly similar overall to RRV 26-95, but considerable differences exist in the 3' region of the genome.

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