Genome Sequence of a CHeRI Orbivirus 3 Strain Isolated from a Dead White-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in Florida, USA

Thais C S Rodrigues; John A Lednicky; Julia C Loeb; Juan M Campos Krauer; Samantha M Wisely; Thomas B Waltzek; Kuttichantran Subramaniam

doi:10.1128/MRA.00523-20

Genome Sequence of a CHeRI Orbivirus 3 Strain Isolated from a Dead White-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in Florida, USA

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 Jun 25;9(26):e00523-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00523-20.

Authors

Thais C S Rodrigues^{1

2}, John A Lednicky^{2

3}, Julia C Loeb^{2

3}, Juan M Campos Krauer^{4

5}, Samantha M Wisely^{2

5}, Thomas B Waltzek^{1

2}, Kuttichantran Subramaniam^{6

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
² Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
³ Department of Environmental and Global Health, College of Public Health and Health Professions, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
⁴ Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
⁵ Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
⁶ Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA kuttichantran@ufl.edu.

Abstract

We report the genome sequence of an orbivirus isolated from a dead farmed white-tailed deer in Florida. The deer was coinfected with epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus type 2. Phylogenetic and genetic analyses supported the virus as the fourth strain of the CHeRI orbivirus 3 species.