Complete assembly of a dengue virus type 3 genome from a recent genotype III clade by metagenomic sequencing of serum [version 2; referees: 2 approved]

Background: Mosquito-borne flaviviruses, such as dengue and Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV), cause life-threatening diseases, particularly in the tropics. Methods: Here we performed unbiased metagenomic sequencing of RNA extracted from the serum of four patients and the plasma of one patient, all...

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Main Authors: Mary Dias, Chitra Pattabiraman, Shilpa Siddappa, Malali Gowda, Anita Shet, Derek Smith, Barbara Muehlemann, Krishnapriya Tamma, Tom Solomon, Terry Jones, Sudhir Krishna
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wellcome 2019-01-01
Series:Wellcome Open Research
Online Access:https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/3-44/v2