Genome Sequence of a Bovine Rhinitis B Virus Identified in Cattle in Sweden

Anne-Lie Blomström; Veslemøy Oma; Mamata Khatri; Hanne H Hansen; Maria Stokstad; Mikael Berg; Mette Myrmel

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00172-17

Genome Sequence of a Bovine Rhinitis B Virus Identified in Cattle in Sweden

Genome Announc. 2017 May 11;5(19):e00172-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00172-17.

Authors

Anne-Lie Blomström¹, Veslemøy Oma², Mamata Khatri³, Hanne H Hansen⁴, Maria Stokstad², Mikael Berg⁵, Mette Myrmel³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biomedical Sciences and Veterinary Public Health, Section of Virology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden anne-lie.blomstrom@slu.se.
² Department of Production Animal Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Oslo, Norway.
³ Department for Food Safety and Infection Biology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Oslo, Norway.
⁴ Faculty of Biosciences, Center for Integrative Genetics (CIGENE), Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway.
⁵ Department of Biomedical Sciences and Veterinary Public Health, Section of Virology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden.

Abstract

A bovine rhinitis B virus, identified in a calf from Sweden, was genetically characterized. The complete polyprotein was recovered, and phylogenetic analysis showed that this virus has the highest similarity to a bovine rhinitis B virus previously identified in Mexico.