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We present pyrosequencing data and phylogenetic analysis for the full genome of Yug Bogdanovac virus (YBV), a member of the Vesicular stomatitis virus serogroup of the Rhabdoviridae isolated from a pool of Phlebotomus perfiliewi sandflies collected in Serbia in 1976. YBV shows very low nucleotide identities to other members of the Vesicular stomatitis virus serogroup and does not contain a reading frame for C′/C proteins.
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Yug Bogdanovac virus (YBV) was isolated in 1976 from a pool of 200 unengorged female Phlebotomus perfiliewi sandflies collected in Serbia. Electron microscopy and serological analysis (complement fixation test, immunofluorescence, plaque reduction neutralization assay) placed it into the Vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) serogroup of the Rhabdoviridae. Antibodies against YBV were found in humans (6/274 tested) [1] and domestic animals [1–3] but the role of YBV as a human pathogen is unclear. An antigenic relationship to Chandipura virus (CHDV) isolated in India and West Africa [4–7] and to Isfahan virus (ISFV) isolated in Iran and Turkmenia [8, 9], two members of the VSV serogroup implicated as causes of febrile and neurological diseases (CHDV) in humans [10–12] was described. In order to determine the genome sequence of this European vesiculovirus, YBV was passaged thrice in Vero B4 cells and RNA extraction was performed as described [13]. In order to cover the termini, a self-complimentary 3′-FLAC adapter and a 5′-RACE adapter were ligated to the genome prior to pyrosequencing [14]. A MID-barcoded Roche/454 Rapid Library was produced from 300 ng adapter-ligated viral genomic RNA following reverse transcription at 65 °C for 30 min (Transcriptor (Roche). 82 % of 11,970 reads were YBV genome specific (coverage 294-fold). The 11,202 nucleotide –ssRNA genome shows the typical genomic organization of vesiculoviruses including 3′-leader followed by 5 structural genes, and 5′-trailer sequence (Fig. 1a, GenBank JF911700). The full-length genome of YBV virus shows very low nucleotide identities to the genomes of CHDV (55.7 %), ISFV (55.3 %, [15]), VSIV (52.8 %), and of rabies virus (41.0 %) (Fig. 1b). Nevertheless, the high bootstrap values of the phylogenetic analysis confirm serological grouping of YBV within the genus Vesiculovirus of rhabdoviruses (Fig. 1b). In YBV, the C′/C proteins, two small highly basic, non-structural proteins encoded in a second ORF within the P gene of most vesiculoviruses [16, 17] are absent as in Alagoas virus (VSAV) [18]. Both 3′-leader and 5′-positive-sense antigenomic trailer of YBV are highly complementary to each other in the first 32 nucleotides (Fig. 1c, [19]). The genomic data presented here will help to design a YBV-specific RT-PCR which could be used to monitor YBV activity in phlebotomine sandflies in the Balkans.
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This work was supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), grant number 01KI0710, “Research on Zoonotic Infectious Diseases” program, “Emerging arthropod-borne viral infections in Germany: Pathogenesis, diagnostics and surveillance,” and the BMBF funded research program “Potential release-oriented biothreat emergency diagnostics (P.R.O.B.E)” for civil security of the German Federal Government as part of the high-tech strategy for Germany. R.B.T. was supported by US National Institute of Health contract HHSN272201000040I/HHSN27200004/DO4.
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Pfeffer, M., Dilcher, M., Tesh, R.B. et al. Genetic characterization of Yug Bogdanovac virus. Virus Genes 46, 201–202 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11262-012-0819-5
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