Arenavirus Coinfections Are Common in Snakes with Boid Inclusion Body Disease
J Hepojoki1, P Salmenperä2, T Sironen3
1University of Helsinki, Department of Virology, Haartman Institute, Helsinki, Finland jussi.hepojoki@helsinki.fi.
Abstract:
Recently, novel arenaviruses were found in snakes with boid inclusion body disease (BIBD); these form the new genus Reptarenavirus within the family Arenaviridae. We used next-generation sequencing and de novo sequence assembly to investigate reptarenavirus isolates from our previous study. Four of the six isolates and all of the samples from snakes with BIBD contained at least two reptarenavirus species. The viruses sequenced comprise four novel reptarenavirus species and a representative of a new arenavirus genus.
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