Complete Genome Sequence of Human Coronavirus Strain 229E Isolated from Plasma Collected from a Haitian Child in 2016

Tania S Bonny; Kuttichantran Subramaniam; Thomas B Waltzek; Maha A Elbadry; Valery Madsen Beau De Rochars; Taina Telisma; Mohammed Rashid; J Glenn Morris Jr; John A Lednicky

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01313-17

Complete Genome Sequence of Human Coronavirus Strain 229E Isolated from Plasma Collected from a Haitian Child in 2016

Genome Announc. 2017 Nov 22;5(47):e01313-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01313-17.

Authors

Tania S Bonny^{1

2}, Kuttichantran Subramaniam³, Thomas B Waltzek³, Maha A Elbadry^{1

2}, Valery Madsen Beau De Rochars^{2

4}, Taina Telisma⁵, Mohammed Rashid², J Glenn Morris Jr^{2

6}, John A Lednicky^{7

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Environmental and Global Health, College of Public Health and Health Professions, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
² Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
³ Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
⁴ Department of Health Services Research, College of Public Health and Health Professions, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
⁵ Christianville Foundation School Clinic, Gressier, Haiti.
⁶ Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
⁷ Department of Environmental and Global Health, College of Public Health and Health Professions, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA jlednicky@phhp.ufl.edu.

Abstract

Human coronavirus strain 229E (HCoV-229E) and human alphaherpesvirus 1 were isolated from the plasma of a Haitian child in 2016 with suspected arbovirus diseases. To our knowledge, this is the first description of HCoV-229E in human plasma, which is the focus of this article.

Grants and funding

R01 AI126357/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States