Nearly Complete Genome Sequences of 17 Enterovirus D68 Strains from Kansas City, Missouri, 2018

Suman B Pakala; Yi Tan; Ferdaus Hassan; Annie Mai; Robert H Markowitz; Meghan H Shilts; Seesandra V Rajagopala; Rangaraj Selvarangan; Suman R Das

doi:10.1128/MRA.00388-19

Nearly Complete Genome Sequences of 17 Enterovirus D68 Strains from Kansas City, Missouri, 2018

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 Nov 7;8(45):e00388-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00388-19.

Authors

Suman B Pakala^#¹, Yi Tan^#¹, Ferdaus Hassan^#², Annie Mai¹, Robert H Markowitz¹, Meghan H Shilts¹, Seesandra V Rajagopala¹, Rangaraj Selvarangan^{2

3}, Suman R Das^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
² Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Mercy, Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
³ University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
⁴ Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA [email protected].
⁵ Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

Here, we report 17 nearly complete genome sequences of enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) isolated from Kansas City, MO, in 2018. Phylogenetic analysis suggests that these strains belong to subclade B3, similar to the ones that caused the 2016 epidemics in the United States but different from the 2014 outbreak B1 strains.

Grants and funding

T32 LM012412/LM/NLM NIH HHS/United States