Authors: Gábor Reuter Ákos Boros Eric Delwart Péter Pankovics
Publish Date: 2013/04/28
Volume: 158, Issue: 10, Pages: 2163-2167
Abstract
Banna virus whose genome is composed of 12 segments of doublestranded RNA is a member of the genus Seadornavirus in the family Reoviridae and is thought to be an emerging mosquitotransmitted human pathogen in Southeast Asia A novel phylogenetic relative of Banna virus Balaton virus BALV JX947843JX947850 and KC522611KC522612 was identified using viral metagenomics in the intestinal contents of freshwater carp Cyprinus carpio in Hungary The amino acid sequence identity of Balaton virus to homologous proteins of Banna viruses was 2526 for segment 12 VP12 and 6162 for segment 1 VP1 indicating that Balaton virus potentially represents a novel seadornavirus species This study demonstrates that seadornaviruses are genetically diverse not restricted geographically to Southeast Asia and present in an aquatic environmentThis work was supported by a grant from the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund OTKA K83013 GR was supported by the János Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and ED by NHLBI grant R01HL105770 We thank Gertrud Domonkos ÁNTSZ Pécs Hungary for her technical help with PAGE
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