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Volume 30, Number 2—February 2024
Research

Piscichuvirus-Associated Severe Meningoencephalomyelitis in Aquatic Turtles, United States, 2009–2021

Weerapong Laovechprasit, Kelsey T. Young, Brian A. Stacy, Steven B. Tillis, Robert J. Ossiboff, Jordan A. Vann, Kuttichantran Subramaniam, Dalen W. Agnew, Elizabeth W. Howerth, Jian Zhang, Shayna Whitaker, Alicia Walker, Andrew M. Orgill, Lyndsey N. Howell, Donna J. Shaver, Kyle Donnelly, Allen M. Foley, and James B. StantonComments to Author 
Author affiliations: University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA (W. Laovechprasit, K.T. Young, E.W. Howerth, J. Zhang, J.B. Stanton); National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Pascagoula, Mississippi, USA (B.A. Stacy, L.N. Howell); University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA (S.B. Tillis, R.J. Ossiboff, J.A. Vann, K. Subramaniam); Michigan State University, Lansing, Michigan, USA (D.W. Agnew); Amos Rehabilitation Keep at University of Texas Marine Science Institute, Port Aransas, Texas, USA (S. Whitaker, A. Walker, A.M. Orgill); National Park Service at Padre Island National Seashore, Corpus Christi, Texas, USA (D.J. Shaver); Brevard Zoo and Sea Turtle Healing Center, Melbourne, Florida, USA (K. Donnelly); Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Jacksonville, Florida, USA (A.M. Foley)

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Table 2

Genome comparison of piscichuviruses from 5 turtles positive for FTuNV1 or StuNV1, United States, 2009–2021, and reference sequences*

Virus GenBank accession no. Genome, nt 3′ UTR, nt ORF4, nt N, nt G, nt L, nt 5′ UTR, nt
FTuNV1 OQ547744 10,781 89 318 1,446 2,052 6,438 91
STuNV1 (Kemp’s ridley) OQ547745 10,839 93 318 1,500 2,052 6,438 91
STuNV1 (Loggerhead) OQ547746 10,839 93 318 1,500 2,052 6,438 91
GRSCV MG600009 10,625 >59 276‡ 1,482 1,995 6,423 >67
WFClV MG600011 10,385 >64 225‡ 1,344 1,929 6,348 >45
HFrV1 MN567051 10,718 79 255‡ 1,509 1,983 6,435 204
HhCV MW645030–2 10,858 NA NA 1,566 1,956 6,363 NA
SxASC4 KX884439 11,270 >177 234† 1,794 2,046 6,468 >97
FMCV1 ON125109 10,991 25 396 1,395 2,178 6,615 104

*FMCV1, freshwater macrophyte associate chu-like virus 1; FTuNV1, freshwater turtle neural virus 1; G, glycoprotein; GRSCV, Guǎngdōng red-banded snake chuvirus-like; HFrV1, Herr Frank virus 1; HhCV, hardyhead chuvirus; L, large protein; N, nucleoprotein; NA, data not available; ORF, open reading frame; STuNV1, sea turtle neural virus 1; SxASC4, Sānxiá atyid shrimp virus 4; UTR, untranslated region; WFClV, Wēnlǐng fish chu-like virus. †Annotations were performed in this study because ORF4 was not originally annotated in the National Center for Biotechnology Information.

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