Complete Coding Sequences of Five Dengue Virus Type 2 Clinical Isolates from Venezuela Obtained through Shotgun Metagenomics

Erley Lizarazo; Natacha Couto; Maria Vincenti-Gonzalez; Erwin C Raangs; Thomas Jaenisch; Alex W Friedrich; Adriana Tami; John W Rossen

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00545-18

Complete Coding Sequences of Five Dengue Virus Type 2 Clinical Isolates from Venezuela Obtained through Shotgun Metagenomics

Genome Announc. 2018 Jun 21;6(25):e00545-18. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00545-18.

Authors

Erley Lizarazo¹, Natacha Couto², Maria Vincenti-Gonzalez¹, Erwin C Raangs¹, Thomas Jaenisch³, Alex W Friedrich¹, Adriana Tami^{1

4}, John W Rossen¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
² Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands [email protected].
³ University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
⁴ Departamento de Parasitología, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de Carabobo, Valencia, Venezuela.

Abstract

Dengue is a disease endemic in Latin American countries, like Venezuela, and has become one of the most important public health problems. We report five complete coding sequences of dengue virus serotype 2 (DENV-2) isolated from DENV-infected patients in Venezuela. Phylogenetic analysis placed the isolates within the American/Asian genotype.