Complete genome sequence of a porcine epidemic diarrhea virus from a novel outbreak in belgium, january 2015

Sebastiaan Theuns; Nádia Conceição-Neto; Isaura Christiaens; Mark Zeller; Lowiese M B Desmarets; Inge D M Roukaerts; Delphine D Acar; Elisabeth Heylen; Jelle Matthijnssens; Hans J Nauwynck

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00506-15

Complete genome sequence of a porcine epidemic diarrhea virus from a novel outbreak in belgium, january 2015

Genome Announc. 2015 May 21;3(3):e00506-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00506-15.

Affiliations

¹ Ghent University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Virology, Parasitology and Immunology, Laboratory of Virology, Merelbeke, Belgium sebastiaan.theuns@ugent.be.
² KU Leuven-University of Leuven, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Laboratory for Clinical and Epidemiological Virology, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Leuven, Belgium.
³ Ghent University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Virology, Parasitology and Immunology, Laboratory of Virology, Merelbeke, Belgium.

Abstract

Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) is a member of the family Coronaviridae and can cause severe outbreaks of diarrhea in piglets from different age groups. Here, we report the complete genome sequence (28,028 nt) of a PEDV strain isolated during a novel outbreak in Belgium.