Whole-Genome Sequence of an African Swine Fever Virus Isolate from the Czech Republic

Jan H Forth; Leonie F Forth; Petr Václavek; Pavel Barták; Dirk Höper; Martin Beer; Sandra Blome

doi:10.1128/MRA.00948-20

Whole-Genome Sequence of an African Swine Fever Virus Isolate from the Czech Republic

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 Oct 29;9(44):e00948-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00948-20.

Authors

Jan H Forth¹, Leonie F Forth¹, Petr Václavek², Pavel Barták², Dirk Höper¹, Martin Beer¹, Sandra Blome³

Affiliations

¹ Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Greifswald, Germany.
² State Veterinary Institute Jihlava, Jihlava, Czech Republic.
³ Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Greifswald, Germany sandra.blome@fli.de.

Abstract

Between June 2017 and April 2018, an outbreak of African swine fever (ASF) affected wild boar in the southeast of the Czech Republic. Here, we present the whole-genome sequence of the causative ASF virus. It belongs to genotype II and shows very high identity with other strains from Eastern Europe.