Genome Sequence of Novel Human Parechovirus Type 17

Sindy Böttcher; Patrick E Obermeier; Sabine Diedrich; Yolande Kaboré; Rossella D'Alfonso; Herbert Pfister; Rolf Kaiser; Veronica Di Cristanziano

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01649-16

Genome Sequence of Novel Human Parechovirus Type 17

Genome Announc. 2017 Feb 23;5(8):e01649-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01649-16.

Authors

Sindy Böttcher¹, Patrick E Obermeier², Sabine Diedrich², Yolande Kaboré³, Rossella D'Alfonso^{3

4}, Herbert Pfister⁵, Rolf Kaiser⁵, Veronica Di Cristanziano⁵

Affiliations

¹ National Reference Centre for Poliomyelitis and Enteroviruses, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany [email protected].
² National Reference Centre for Poliomyelitis and Enteroviruses, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany.
³ Centre Don Orione pour Handicapés Physiques, Bonoua, Côte d'Ivoire.
⁴ Department of Systems Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy.
⁵ Institute of Virology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.

Abstract

Human parechoviruses (HPeV) circulate worldwide, causing a broad variety of symptoms, preferentially in early childhood. We report here the nearly complete genome sequence of a novel HPeV type, consisting of 7,062 nucleotides and encoding 2,179 amino acids. M36/CI/2014 was taxonomically classified as HPeV-17 by the picornavirus study group.