Genome Sequence of a Ranavirus Isolated from a Red-Eared Slider (Trachemys scripta elegans) in Poland

Ewa Borzym; Magdalena Stachnik; Michał Reichert; Artur Rzeżutka; Agnieszka Jasik; Thomas B Waltzek; Kuttichantran Subramaniam

doi:10.1128/MRA.00781-20

Genome Sequence of a Ranavirus Isolated from a Red-Eared Slider (Trachemys scripta elegans) in Poland

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 Nov 19;9(47):e00781-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00781-20.

Authors

Ewa Borzym¹, Magdalena Stachnik¹, Michał Reichert¹, Artur Rzeżutka², Agnieszka Jasik³, Thomas B Waltzek^{4

5}, Kuttichantran Subramaniam^{6

5}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Fish Diseases, National Veterinary Research Institute, Pulawy, Poland.
² Department of Food and Environmental Virology, National Veterinary Research Institute, Pulawy, Poland.
³ Department of Pathology, National Veterinary Research Institute, Pulawy, Poland.
⁴ Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
⁵ Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
⁶ Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA kuttichantran@ufl.edu.

Abstract

The red-eared slider (RES) ranavirus (RESRV) was isolated from a free-ranging RES turtle that died with evidence of respiratory disease. The RESRV genome sequence (106,878 bp) was determined, and phylogenetic analysis revealed that it is a common midwife toad virus (CMTV) strain. This study is the first report of CMTV in RES.