First Complete Genome Sequence of a French Bovine coronavirus Strain

Nathalie Kin; Pauline Guerard; Laure Diancourt; Valérie Caro; Astrid Vabret; Meriadeg Ar Gouilh

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00319-17

First Complete Genome Sequence of a French Bovine coronavirus Strain

Genome Announc. 2017 May 25;5(21):e00319-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00319-17.

Authors

Nathalie Kin^{1

2}, Pauline Guerard^{3

2}, Laure Diancourt⁴, Valérie Caro⁴, Astrid Vabret^{3

2

5}, Meriadeg Ar Gouilh^{3

2

4}

Affiliations

¹ Normandie Université, Caen, France nathalie.kin@unicaen.fr.
² UNICAEN, UNIROUEN, GRAM, Caen, France.
³ Normandie Université, Caen, France.
⁴ Institut Pasteur, Environment and Infectious Risks Research and Expertise Unit, Paris, France.
⁵ Department of Virology, University Hospital of Caen, Caen, France.

Abstract

We sequenced the first Bovine coronavirus (BCoV) complete genome sequence from France. This BCoV was directly sequenced from a fecal sample collected from a calf in Normandy in 2014.