Authors: Naomi L Forrester Steve G Widen Thomas G Wood Amelia P Travassos da Rosa Thomas G Ksiazek Nikos Vasilakis Robert B Tesh
Publish Date: 2013/04/13
Volume: 47, Issue: 1, Pages: 168-172
Abstract
An unknown virus was isolated from a mosquito pool collected in Jakarta during routine surveillance in 1979 Analysis of the sample using the Illumina platform resulted in the identification of a Newcastle disease virus NDV isolate The sequence of the isolate indicated that it is an ancestral lineage of class II genotype XIII The source of the isolate is unusual as newcastle disease virus is not believed to be vectorborne although this mosquito pool was processed in a laboratory also handling samples for avian influenza surveillance and it is possible that this resulted in crosscontamination This NDV isolate is still ancestral to most extant genotype XIII strains and provides a useful insight into historic NDV evolution
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