Complete Genome Sequences of Two Rat Pegivirus Strains in Indonesia

Tsutomu Nishizawa; Mulyanto; Yumi Hatano; Kazumoto Murata; Hiroaki Okamoto

doi:10.1128/MRA.00049-21

Complete Genome Sequences of Two Rat Pegivirus Strains in Indonesia

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2021 Mar 18;10(11):e00049-21. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00049-21.

Authors

Tsutomu Nishizawa¹, Mulyanto^{2

3}, Yumi Hatano⁴, Kazumoto Murata¹, Hiroaki Okamoto⁵

Affiliations

¹ Division of Virology, Department of Infection and Immunity, Jichi Medical University School of Medicine, Shimotsuke, Tochigi, Japan.
² West Nusa Tenggara Hepatitis Laboratory, Mataram, Indonesia.
³ Immunobiology Laboratory, Faculty of Medicine, University of Mataram, Mataram, Indonesia.
⁴ Sakakibara Heart Institute Clinic, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
⁵ Division of Virology, Department of Infection and Immunity, Jichi Medical University School of Medicine, Shimotsuke, Tochigi, Japan hokamoto@jichi.ac.jp.

Abstract

The entire genome sequences of two pegivirus strains recovered from serum samples of wild rats (Rattus rattus) in Indonesia were determined. They possessed 11,013 to 11,014 nucleotides and differed from the reported rodent pegivirus strains within the Pegivirus J species of the genus Pegivirus by 12.7% to 40.9% in the near-entire coding region sequences.