期刊
INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION
卷 58, 期 -, 页码 218-223出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2018.01.002
关键词
ssRNA virus; Bovine viral diarrhea virus; Quasispecies; Persistent infection; Evolution; Flaviviridae
资金
- University of Calgary, Faculty of Veterinary medicine [10004757]
- University of Calgary Margaret Gunn Endowment for Animal Research [10005041]
- Alberta Livestock and Meat Agency [2011F096R]
- Alberta Innovates - Technology Futures (Graduate Student Scholarship)
Bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) is a single stranded RNA virus in the family Flaviviridae that causes a form of persistent infection. If a fetus is infected in utero during the first 120 days of gestation the resulting calf will be immunotolerant to the infecting strain and maintain the virus for life. These animals are epidemiologically important in maintaining BVDV on farms, but also present a unique opportunity to study quasispecies in vivo in the absence of significant selection by the host adaptive immune response. We used deep sequencing and novel analytical methods to characterize the viral populations within the mesenteric lymph nodes of 10 persistently infected animals. Our results indicate that the pattern of variability across the viral genome from animal to animal is very consistent within BVDV subgenotypes. However, the individual mutations that constitute this variation are not necessarily the same in each animal. Even in the absence of significant immune selection the structural genes of BVDV vary more extensively than the non-structural genes. These findings could be useful for future vaccine design against BVDV as well as for measuring and understanding patterns of variation in other ssRNA viruses, especially those that belong to the family Flaviviridae.
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