First Complete Genome Sequence of a Subgenotype Vd Newcastle Disease Virus Isolate

Iryna V Goraichuk; Peter L M Msoffe; Gaspar H Chiwanga; Kiril M Dimitrov; Claudio L Afonso; David L Suarez

doi:10.1128/MRA.00436-19

First Complete Genome Sequence of a Subgenotype Vd Newcastle Disease Virus Isolate

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 Jul 3;8(27):e00436-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00436-19.

Authors

Iryna V Goraichuk^{1

2}, Peter L M Msoffe³, Gaspar H Chiwanga⁴, Kiril M Dimitrov¹, Claudio L Afonso¹, David L Suarez⁵

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 Department of Veterinary Medicine and Public Health, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania.
⁴ Tanzania Veterinary Laboratory Agency, Mtwara, Tanzania.
⁵ 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@ars.usda.gov.

Abstract

A Newcastle disease virus was isolated from a chicken from a live bird market in the Mbeya region of Tanzania. Complete genome characterization of the isolate identified it as a member of subgenotype Vd. This is the first complete genome sequence of this subgenotype.