Complete Genome Sequence of a Human Metapneumovirus Isolate Collected in Brazil

Nicholas Di Paola; Marielton Dos Passos Cunha; Giuliana Stravinskas Durigon; Eitan Naaman Berezin; Edison Durigon; Danielle Bruna Leal Oliveira; Paolo Marinho de Andrade Zanotto

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01597-17

Complete Genome Sequence of a Human Metapneumovirus Isolate Collected in Brazil

Genome Announc. 2018 Feb 8;6(6):e01597-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01597-17.

Authors

Nicholas Di Paola¹, Marielton Dos Passos Cunha¹, Giuliana Stravinskas Durigon^{2

3}, Eitan Naaman Berezin², Edison Durigon¹, Danielle Bruna Leal Oliveira¹, Paolo Marinho de Andrade Zanotto⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Microbiology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
² Department of Pediatrics, Santa Casa de Misericórdia Hospital, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
³ Infectious Disease Division, Children's Institute University of Sao Paulo, HC-FMUSP, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
⁴ Department of Microbiology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil [email protected].

Abstract

Here, we present the complete genome sequence of a human metapneumovirus isolate collected from a hospitalized infant suffering from acute respiratory disease. This is the first complete genome sequence of human metapneumovirus originating from Brazil.