Complete genome sequence of equid herpesvirus 3

Steven Sijmons; Aldana Vissani; Maria Silva Tordoya; Benoît Muylkens; Etienne Thiry; Piet Maes; Jelle Matthijnssens; Maria Barrandeguy; Marc Van Ranst

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00797-14

Complete genome sequence of equid herpesvirus 3

Genome Announc. 2014 Oct 2;2(5):e00797-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00797-14.

Authors

Steven Sijmons¹, Aldana Vissani², Maria Silva Tordoya², Benoît Muylkens³, Etienne Thiry³, Piet Maes⁴, Jelle Matthijnssens⁴, Maria Barrandeguy², Marc Van Ranst⁴

Affiliations

¹ Laboratory of Clinical Virology, Rega Institute for Medical Research, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium [email protected].
² Instituto de Virología, CICVyA, INTA-Castelar, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
³ Veterinary Virology and Animal Viral Diseases, Department of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium.
⁴ Laboratory of Clinical Virology, Rega Institute for Medical Research, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

Abstract

Equid herpesvirus 3 (EHV-3) is a member of the subfamily Alphaherpesvirinae that causes equine coital exanthema. Here, we report the first complete genome sequence of EHV-3. The 151,601-nt genome encodes 76 distinct genes like other equine alphaherpesviruses, but genetically, EHV-3 is significantly more divergent.