Complete Genome Sequence of the First Camelpox Virus Case Diagnosed in Israel

Ofir Israeli; Inbar Cohen-Gihon; Anat Zvi; Ohad Shifman; Sharon Melamed; Nir Paran; Orly Laskar-Levy; Adi Beth-Din

doi:10.1128/MRA.00671-19

Complete Genome Sequence of the First Camelpox Virus Case Diagnosed in Israel

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 Aug 22;8(34):e00671-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00671-19.

Authors

Ofir Israeli^#¹, Inbar Cohen-Gihon^#², Anat Zvi², Ohad Shifman², Sharon Melamed³, Nir Paran³, Orly Laskar-Levy³, Adi Beth-Din²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Israel Institute for Biological Research, Ness Ziona, Israel ofiri@iibr.gov.il.
² Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Israel Institute for Biological Research, Ness Ziona, Israel.
³ Department of Infectious Diseases, Israel Institute for Biological Research, Ness Ziona, Israel.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

We report here the whole-genome sequence of the first camelpox virus case diagnosed in Israel. The strain (Negev2016) was isolated in 2016 from a camel in southern Israel and was sequenced on the Illumina MiSeq and Oxford Nanopore MinION platforms.