Complete Genome Sequence of the Lumpy Skin Disease Virus Recovered from the First Outbreak in the Northern Caucasus Region of Russia in 2015

Alexander Sprygin; Yuriy Babin; Yana Pestova; Svetlana Kononova; Olga Byadovskaya; Aleksandr Kononov

doi:10.1128/MRA.01733-18

Complete Genome Sequence of the Lumpy Skin Disease Virus Recovered from the First Outbreak in the Northern Caucasus Region of Russia in 2015

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 Feb 21;8(8):e01733-18. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01733-18. eCollection 2019 Feb.

Authors

Alexander Sprygin¹, Yuriy Babin², Yana Pestova¹, Svetlana Kononova¹, Olga Byadovskaya¹, Aleksandr Kononov¹

Affiliations

¹ Federal Center for Animal Health, Vladimir, Russia.
² Federal Budget Institution of Science, Central Research Institute of Epidemiology, Moscow, Russia.

Abstract

We report here the complete genome sequence of a lumpy skin disease virus (LSDV) isolate obtained in the Northern Caucasus region of Russia in 2015. The LSDV/Russia/Dagestan/2015 genome sequence grouped with field LSDV isolates found in Serbia and Greece, suggesting the monophyletic origin of LSDV isolates that recently affected countries in the Northern Hemisphere.