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Genetic Characterization of Yellow Fever Virus Strain JSS, the Original South American Strain
Madison E Lee1, Clairissa A Hansen1, Jill K Thompson2
1Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), Galveston, TX 77555, USA.
Abstract:
Yellow fever virus (YFV) is divided into seven genotypes, including West Africa II (WAII) and South America I (SAI). The first wild-type YFVs isolated, Asibi (Ghana/1927) and French Viscerotropic virus ([FVV] Senegal/1927), are members of WAII. The first YFV strain isolated in South America, JSS (Brazil/1935), was associated with the last outbreak of urban YF in Brazil and has been insufficiently studied. We utilized Next Generation Sequencing to compare JSS with Asibi, FVV, and other South American YFV strains. SAI strains, including JSS, had higher genetic diversity than WAII strains. Phylogenetic and phylogeographic studies of YFV in South America have revealed the circulation of five lineages within Brazil, termed 1A-1E. JSS was found to be distinct from the five genetic lineages currently recognized in Brazil, and so we termed JSS as the currently sole member of Brazilian linage 1F. a comparison of JSS with all other Brazilian genomes of YFV suggests that lineage 1F appears to have become extinct.
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