African swine fever virus NAM P1/95 is a mixture of genotype I and genotype VIII viruses

Lynnette C Goatley; Graham L Freimanis; Chandana Tennakoon; Armanda Bastos; Livio Heath; Christopher L Netherton

doi:10.1128/mra.00067-24

African swine fever virus NAM P1/95 is a mixture of genotype I and genotype VIII viruses

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2024 Apr 11;13(4):e0006724. doi: 10.1128/mra.00067-24. Epub 2024 Mar 25.

Authors

Lynnette C Goatley¹, Graham L Freimanis¹, Chandana Tennakoon¹, Armanda Bastos^{2

3}, Livio Heath⁴, Christopher L Netherton¹

Affiliations

¹ The Pirbright Institute, Woking, United Kingdom.
² Department of Zoology & Entomology, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
³ Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
⁴ Agricultural Research Council-Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, Onderstepoort, South Africa.

Abstract

African swine fever virus causes a lethal hemorrhagic disease of domestic pigs. The NAM P1/1995 isolate was originally described as B646L genotype XVIII; however, full genome sequencing revealed that this assignment was incorrect.

Keywords: African swine fever virus; Illumina MiSeq; genome; mixed population; oxford nanopore.

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