Genome Sequence of Bluetongue virus Serotype 17 Isolated in Brazil in 2014.

Ana Carolina Diniz Matos Júlio César Câmara Rosa Kyriaki Nomikou Lorena Lima Barbosa Guimarães Érica Azevedo Costa Maria Isabel Maldonado Coelho Guedes David Driemeier Zélia Inês Portela Lobato Peter Paul Clement Mertens

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Vector-borne Viral Diseases, Arbovirus Molecular Research Group, The Pirbright Institute, Woking, Surrey, United Kingdom School of Veterinary Medicine and Science, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, Leicestershire, United Kingdom.

Published: October 2016

The complete genome sequence of Bluetongue virus (BTV) serotype 17 strain 17/BRA/2014/73, isolated from a sheep in Brazil in 2014, is reported here. All segments clustered with western topotype strains and indicated reassortment events with other BTV from the Americas. The strain 17/BRA/2014/73 represents a novel reference strain for BTV-17 from South America.

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