Full genome sequences and molecular characterization of tick-borne encephalitis virus strains isolated from human patients

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60077344:_____/15:00448150 RIV/00027162:_____/15:#0001273 RIV/60460709:41340/15:65007 RIV/60076658:12310/15:43888821

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877959X1400185X" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877959X1400185X</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ttbdis.2014.09.002" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.ttbdis.2014.09.002</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Full genome sequences and molecular characterization of tick-borne encephalitis virus strains isolated from human patients

Original language description

Tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) causes tick-borne encephalitis (TBE), one of the most important human neuroinfections across Eurasia. Up to date, only three full genome sequences of human European TBEV isolates are available, mostly due to difficulties with isolation of the virus from human patients. Here we present full genome characterization of an additional five low-passage TBEV strains isolated from human patients with severe forms of TBE. These strains were isolated in 1953 within Central Bohemia in the former Czechoslovakia, and belong to the historically oldest human TBEV isolates in Europe. We demonstrate here that all analyzed isolates are distantly phylogenetically related, indicating that the emergence of TBE in Central Europe was not caused by one predominant strain, but rather a pool of distantly related TBEV strains. Nucleotide identity between individual sequenced TBEV strains ranged from 97.5% to 99.6% and all strains shared large deletions in the 3' non-coding region, which has been recently suggested to be an important determinant of virulence. The number of unique amino acid substitutions varied from 3 to 9 in individual isolates, but no characteristic amino acid substitution typical exclusively for all human TBEV isolates was identified when compared to the isolates from ticks. We did, however, correlate that the exploration of the TBEV envelope glycoprotein by specific antibodies were in close proximity to these unique amino acid substitutions. Taken together, we report here the largest number of patient-derived European TBEV full genome sequences to date and provide a platform for further studies on evolution of TBEV since the first emergence of human TBE in Europe.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30303 - Infectious Diseases

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

ISSN

1877-959X

e-ISSN

1877-9603

Volume of the periodical

6

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

38-46

UT code for WoS article

000346222700005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84930801558