Genomic and antigenic characterization of Jos virus

Ana Valeria Bussetti, Gustavo Palacios, Amelia Travassos da Rosa, Nazir Savji, Komal Jain, Hilda Guzman, Stephen Hutchison, Vsevolod L. Popov, Robert B. Tesh, W. Ian Lipkin

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Abstract

Jos virus (JOSV), originally isolated in Jos, Nigeria in 1967, has remained unclassified despite cultivation in tissue culture, development of animal models of infection and implementation of seroprevalence surveys for infection. Here, we report genetic, ultrastructural and serological evidence that JOSV is an orthomyxovirus distinct from but phylogenetically related to viruses of the genus Thogotovirus.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)X293-298
JournalJournal of General Virology
Volume93
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 2012

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Virology

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