RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Discovery of a persistent Zika virus lineage in Bahia, Brazil
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 049916
DO 10.1101/049916
A1 Samia N. Naccache
A1 Julien Thézé
A1 Silvia I. Sardi
A1 Sneha Somasekar
A1 Alexander L. Greninger
A1 Antonio C. Bandeira
A1 Gubio S. Campos
A1 Laura B. Tauro
A1 Nuno R. Faria
A1 Oliver G. Pybus
A1 Charles Y. Chiu
YR 2016
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/04/24/049916.abstract
AB Metagenomic next-generation sequencing coupled with capture probe enrichment was used to recover 11 whole and partial Zika virus (ZIKV) genomes from patients in Bahia, Brazil from April 2015 to January 2016, where the majority of suspected Brazilian ZIKV cases have been reported. Phylogenetic reconstructions and molecular clock analyses using the newly generated data uncovered the existence of a Bahia-specific ZIKV lineage sharing a common ancestor in mid-2014, indicating sustained circulation of this strain in Bahia since that date.