Full-Length Genome Sequence of a Sindbis Virus Strain Isolated from Culex cinereus in 1977 in Bozo, Central African Republic

Rita C Sem Ouilibona; Huguette D Tchetgna Simo; Ulrich Vickos; Nicolas Berthet; Emmanuel Nakouné

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00455-18

Full-Length Genome Sequence of a Sindbis Virus Strain Isolated from Culex cinereus in 1977 in Bozo, Central African Republic

Genome Announc. 2018 Jun 28;6(26):e00455-18. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00455-18.

Authors

Rita C Sem Ouilibona¹, Huguette D Tchetgna Simo², Ulrich Vickos¹, Nicolas Berthet^#^{2

3

4}, Emmanuel Nakouné^#⁵

Affiliations

¹ Institut Pasteur de Bangui, Bangui, Central African Republic.
² Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherches Médicales de Franceville (CIRMF), Franceville, Gabon.
³ Institut Pasteur, Unité Environnement et Risques Infectieux, Cellule d'Intervention Biologique d'Urgence, Paris, France.
⁴ Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) UMR3569, Paris, France.
⁵ Institut Pasteur de Bangui, Bangui, Central African Republic enakouney@gmail.com.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

We report here the complete genome sequence of a Sindbis virus (SINV) strain, ArB7761, isolated in 1977 in the Central African Republic. This strain, closely related to the Babanki virus, belongs to the SINV genotype I clade. However, it differs from the Egyptian prototype strain AR339 by several indels in the nsP3 gene.