title: Complete Genome Sequences of Four European Subtype Strains of Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus from Eastern Siberia, Russia.
abstract: Three tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) strains were isolated from Ixodes persulcatus ticks, and one was isolated from a shrew in the territory of eastern Siberia (Russia). The level of sequence identity compared to Neudoerfl (the European prototype strain) is 97.2 to 97.3%.
authors.affiliation: Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and Far East, Rospotrebnadzor, Irkutsk, Russia Irkutsk State University, Irkutsk, Russia adelshin@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Renat V
authors.initials: RV
authors.lastname: Adelshin
authors.affiliation: Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and Far East, Rospotrebnadzor, Irkutsk, Russia.
authors.forename: Olga V
authors.initials: OV
authors.lastname: Melnikova
authors.affiliation: Central Institute of Epidemiology, Rospotrebnadzor, Moscow, Russia.
authors.forename: Ludmila S
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Karan
authors.affiliation: Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and Far East, Rospotrebnadzor, Irkutsk, Russia.
authors.forename: Evgeny I
authors.initials: EI
authors.lastname: Andaev
authors.affiliation: Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and Far East, Rospotrebnadzor, Irkutsk, Russia.
authors.forename: Sergey V
authors.initials: SV
authors.lastname: Balakhonov