Complete Genome Sequence of a Lineage IV Peste des Petits Ruminants Virus from Turkey, 2018

Sabri Hacıoğlu; Simon King; Şirin Gülsün Çizmeci; Öznur Yeşil; John Flannery; Michael D Baron; Carrie Batten; Paulina Z Rajko-Nenow

doi:10.1128/MRA.01446-19

Complete Genome Sequence of a Lineage IV Peste des Petits Ruminants Virus from Turkey, 2018

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 Apr 9;9(15):e01446-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01446-19.

Authors

Sabri Hacıoğlu¹, Simon King², Şirin Gülsün Çizmeci¹, Öznur Yeşil¹, John Flannery², Michael D Baron², Carrie Batten², Paulina Z Rajko-Nenow³

Affiliations

¹ Etlik Veterinary Control Central Research Institute, Virological Research and Diagnostic Laboratory, Ankara, Turkey.
² The Pirbright Institute, Woking, Surrey, United Kingdom.
³ The Pirbright Institute, Woking, Surrey, United Kingdom paulina.rajko-nenow@pirbright.ac.uk.

Abstract

We report the whole-genome sequence of a peste des petits ruminants virus (PPRV) from a lamb exhibiting clinical signs in Turkey in September 2018. The genome of PPRV/Turkey/Central_Anatolia/2018 shows the highest nucleotide sequence identity (97.63%) to PPRV isolated in Turkey in 2000.

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