Complete Genome Sequences of Getah Virus Strains Isolated from Horses in 2016 in Japan

Manabu Nemoto; Hiroshi Bannai; Akihiro Ochi; Hidekazu Niwa; Satoshi Murakami; Koji Tsujimura; Takashi Yamanaka; Hiroshi Kokado; Takashi Kondo

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00750-17

Complete Genome Sequences of Getah Virus Strains Isolated from Horses in 2016 in Japan

Genome Announc. 2017 Aug 3;5(31):e00750-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00750-17.

Authors

Manabu Nemoto¹, Hiroshi Bannai², Akihiro Ochi², Hidekazu Niwa², Satoshi Murakami³, Koji Tsujimura², Takashi Yamanaka², Hiroshi Kokado², Takashi Kondo²

Affiliations

¹ Equine Research Institute, Japan Racing Association, Tochigi, Japan nemoto_manabu@equinst.go.jp.
² Equine Research Institute, Japan Racing Association, Tochigi, Japan.
³ Thermo Fisher Scientific, Life Technologies Japan Ltd., Tokyo, Japan.

Abstract

Getah virus is mosquito-borne and causes disease in horses and pigs. We sequenced and analyzed the complete genomes of three strains isolated from horses in Ibaraki Prefecture, eastern Japan, in 2016. They were almost identical to the genomes of strains recently isolated from horses, pigs, and mosquitoes in Japan.