Complete Genome Sequence of a Mammarenavirus Harbored by Rodents on Hainan Island, China

You Zhang; Langyu Rao; Gang Lv; Lei Zhang; Ruijia Fu; Shanshan Wang; Yue Wu; Xiuji Cui; Feifei Yin

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00129-18

Complete Genome Sequence of a Mammarenavirus Harbored by Rodents on Hainan Island, China

Genome Announc. 2018 Mar 8;6(10):e00129-18. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00129-18.

Authors

You Zhang^{1

2}, Langyu Rao^{2

3}, Gang Lv^{1

2

3}, Lei Zhang⁴, Ruijia Fu^{2

3}, Shanshan Wang^{1

2

3}, Yue Wu^{1

2

3}, Xiuji Cui³, Feifei Yin^{5

2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Hainan Medical University-The University of Hong Kong Joint Laboratory of Tropical Infectious Diseases, Hainan Medical University, Haikou, Hainan, China.
² Key Laboratory of Translation Medicine Tropical Diseases, Hainan Medical University, Haikou, Hainan, China.
³ Department of Pathogen Biology, Hainan Medical University, Haikou, Hainan, China.
⁴ Core Facility and Technical Support, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
⁵ Hainan Medical University-The University of Hong Kong Joint Laboratory of Tropical Infectious Diseases, Hainan Medical University, Haikou, Hainan, China yinfeifeiff@163.com.

Abstract

Wenzhou virus (WENV) is a rodent-borne mammarenavirus that was recently found to infect humans. In this study, we sequenced and analyzed the complete genome of a genetic variant of WENV, HMU (Hainan Medical University) virus. The virus was harbored by a Rattus norvegicus individual in the residential areas of Hainan Province in southern China.