Genome Sequence of a Candidate World Health Organization Reference Strain of Zika Virus for Nucleic Acid Testing
Jan-Hendrik Trösemeier1, Didier Musso2, Johannes Blümel3
1Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, Langen, Germany Molecular Bioinformatics, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Genome Announcements
|September 3, 2016
Abstract:
We report here the sequence of a candidate reference strain of Zika virus (ZIKV) developed on behalf of the World Health Organization (WHO). The ZIKV reference strain is intended for use in nucleic acid amplification (NAT)-based assays for the detection and quantification of ZIKV RNA.
