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. 2014 Dec 4;2(6):e01155-14.
doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01155-14.

Complete Genome Sequence of the Embu Virus Strain SPAn880

M Sofi Ibrahim  1 , Markus Antwerpen  2 , Enrico Georgi  2 , Philipp Vette  2 , Gudrun Zoeller  2 , Hermann Meyer  2
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Complete Genome Sequence of the Embu Virus Strain SPAn880

M Sofi Ibrahim et al. Genome Announc. .

Abstract

We report the complete genome sequence of the Embu virus. The genome consists of 185,139 bp and is nearly identical to that of the Cotia virus. This is the first report on the Embu virus genome sequence, which has been considered an unclassified poxvirus until now.

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