title: Complete Genome Sequences of Five Bluetongue Virus (BTV) Vaccine Strains from a Commercial Live Attenuated Vaccine, a BTV-4 Field Strain from South Africa, and a Reassortant Strain Isolated from Experimentally Vaccinated Cattle.
abstract: This is a report of the complete genome sequences of plaque-selected isolates of each of the five virus strains included in a South African commercial trivalent bluetongue virus (BTV) attenuated live virus vaccine, a BTV-4 field strain isolated from Rustenburg, South Africa, in 2011, and a bluetongue reassortant (bluetongue virus 4 strain 4/O. aries-tc/ZAF/11/OBP-115) isolated from experimentally vaccinated cattle. Full-genome sequencing and phylogenetic analyses show that the bluetongue virus 9 strain 9/B. taurus-tc/ZAF/15/Onderstepoort_B02b is a reassortant virus containing segments from both BTV-9 and BTV-8.
authors.affiliation: Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases, Equine Research Centre, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, Onderstepoort, South Africa cvdbprivate@fastmail.fm.
authors.forename: Carien
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: van den Bergh
authors.affiliation: Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases, Equine Research Centre, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, Onderstepoort, South Africa.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Coetzee
authors.affiliation: Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases, Equine Research Centre, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, Onderstepoort, South Africa.
authors.forename: Alan J
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7729-9918
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Guthrie
authors.affiliation: Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases, Equine Research Centre, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, Onderstepoort, South Africa.
authors.forename: Misha
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: le Grange
authors.affiliation: Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases, Equine Research Centre, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, Onderstepoort, South Africa.
authors.forename: Estelle H
authors.initials: EH
authors.lastname: Venter