Genome Sequences of Polyomaviruses from the Wild-Living Red Colobus (Piliocolobus badius) and Western Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus)

Nicole Ben Salem; Fabian H Leendertz; Bernhard Ehlers

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01101-16

Genome Sequences of Polyomaviruses from the Wild-Living Red Colobus (Piliocolobus badius) and Western Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus)

Genome Announc. 2016 Oct 13;4(5):e01101-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01101-16.

Authors

Nicole Ben Salem¹, Fabian H Leendertz², Bernhard Ehlers³

Affiliations

¹ Division 12, Measles, Mumps, Rubella and Viruses Affecting Immunocompromised Patients, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany.
² P3, Epidemiology of Highly Pathogenic Microorganisms, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany.
³ Division 12, Measles, Mumps, Rubella and Viruses Affecting Immunocompromised Patients, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany [email protected].

Abstract

We identified with PCR and sequencing the full genomes of the recently discovered Pan troglodytes verus polyomavirus 8 and Piliocolobus badius polyomavirus 2 in a western chimpanzee and a western red colobus free-ranging in Taï National Park of Côte d'Ivoire.