Emerging Infectious Diseases (Feb 2007)

Rapid Genome Sequencing of RNA Viruses

  • Tetsuya Mizutani,
  • Daiji Endoh,
  • Michiko Okamoto,
  • Kazuya Shirato,
  • Hiroyuki Shimizu,
  • Minetaro Arita,
  • Shuetsu Fukushi,
  • Masayuki Saijo,
  • Chang Kweng Lim,
  • Mikako Ito,
  • Reiko Nerome,
  • Tomohiko Takasaki,
  • Koji Ishii,
  • Tetsuro Suzuki,
  • Ichiro Kurane,
  • Shigeru Morikawa,
  • Hidekazu Nishimura

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1302.061032
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 2
pp. 322 – 322

Abstract

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We developed a system for rapid determination of viral RNA sequences whereby genomic sequence is obtained from cultured virus isolates without subcloning into plasmid vectors. This method affords new opportunities to address the challenges of unknown or untypeable emerging viruses.

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