Whole-Genome Sequence of Avian coronavirus from a 15-Year-Old Sample Confirms Evidence of GA08-like Strain Circulation 4 Years Prior to Its First Reported Outbreak

Iryna V Goraichuk; James F Davis; Arun B Kulkarni; Claudio L Afonso; David L Suarez

doi:10.1128/MRA.01460-20

Whole-Genome Sequence of Avian coronavirus from a 15-Year-Old Sample Confirms Evidence of GA08-like Strain Circulation 4 Years Prior to Its First Reported Outbreak

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2021 Apr 15;10(15):e01460-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01460-20.

Authors

Iryna V Goraichuk^{1

2}, James F Davis³, Arun B Kulkarni³, Claudio L Afonso¹, David L Suarez⁴

Affiliations

¹ Exotic and Emerging Avian Viral Disease Research Unit, Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory, U.S. National Poultry Research Center, ARS, USDA, Athens, Georgia, USA.
² National Scientific Center Institute of Experimental and Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Kharkiv, Ukraine.
³ Georgia Poultry Laboratory Network, Gainesville, Georgia, USA.
⁴ Exotic and Emerging Avian Viral Disease Research Unit, Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory, U.S. National Poultry Research Center, ARS, USDA, Athens, Georgia, USA david.suarez@usda.gov.

Abstract

Here, we report the complete genome sequence of an Avian coronavirus strain GA08-like isolate from a fecal sample from a broiler chicken collected in Georgia in 2004. The viral genome in this 15-year-old sample provides evidence for the circulation of the GA08-like strain at least 4 years before its first report in 2008.