Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
. 2025 Jun 12;14(6):e0083624.
doi: 10.1128/mra.00836-24. Epub 2025 May 5.

Coding-complete genome sequence of a measles virus genotype B3 isolate from Rabat, Morocco, in 2024

Safae Elkochri  1   2 , Idrissa Diawara  3   4 , Zineb Rhazzar  1   5 , El Mehdi Belouad  6 , Youssef El Kadiri  3   4 , Maryam Benlamari  3   4 , Taha Chouati  5   6 , Boutaina Elgharbaoui  3   4 , Narjisse Ahmadi  3   4 , Amine Idriss Lahlou  1 , Nadia Touil  1 , Khalid Ennibi  1 , Boutayeb Saber  3   4 , Lahcen Belyamani  3   4 , Elmostafa El Fahime  3   4
Affiliations

Coding-complete genome sequence of a measles virus genotype B3 isolate from Rabat, Morocco, in 2024

Safae Elkochri et al. Microbiol Resour Announc. .

Abstract

We determined the coding-complete genome sequence of a measles virus that was isolated in Rabat from a Moroccan patient on 23 March 2024. Phylogenetic analysis showed that this virus, named MVi/Rabat.MAR/29.24, belongs to lineage B3 and is closely related to a USA isolate.

Keywords: Sanger sequencing; coding whome genome; genotype; measles virus.

PubMed Disclaimer

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Figures

Fig 1
Fig 1
A phylogenetic tree representing the coding-complete genome sequence of the Measles strain MVi/Rabat.MAR/29.24/[B3] along with 51 other RefSeq genomes selected from different regions at the nucleotide level. The evolutionary history was inferred using the neighbor-joining method to generate the tree. The percentage of replicate trees in which the associated taxa clustered together during the bootstrap test (500 replicates) is indicated next to the branches. The tree is drawn to scale, with branch lengths in the same units as the evolutionary distances used to infer the phylogenetic tree. These evolutionary distances were computed using the maximum composite likelihood method and are expressed in the number of base substitutions per site. This analysis involved 51 nucleotide sequences, and all ambiguous positions were removed.
See this image and copyright information in PMC

References

    1. Elbenaissi Y, Zniber N, Elkochri S, Aadi Y, Roufik I, Regad A, Elqatni M, Tagajdid M, Elannaz H, Laraqui A, Elmchichi B, Touil N, Ennibi K, Lahlou Amine I, Abi R. 2024. Resurgence of measles in Morocco in 2024 experience of the Mohamed V military hospital. Open J Clin Med Case Rep 10. doi: 10.52768/2379-1039/2278 - DOI
    1. Bellini W-J, Rota J-S, Rota P-A. 1994. Virology of measles virus. J Infect Dis 170 Suppl 1:S15–23. doi: 10.1093/infdis/170.supplement_1.s15 - DOI - PubMed
    1. WHO . 2015. Genetic diversity of wildtype MV and the global measles nucleotide surveillance database (MeaNS). Wkly Epidemiol Rec 30:373–380. - PubMed
    1. Namuwulya P, Bukenya H, Tushabe P, Tweyongyere R, Bwogi J, Cotten M, Phan MVT. 2022. Near-complete genome sequences of measles virus strains from 10 years of Uganda country-wide surveillance. Microbiol Resour Announc 11:e00606-22. doi: 10.1128/mra.00606-22 - DOI - PMC - PubMed
    1. Okonechnikov K, Golosova O, Fursov M, the UGENE team . 2012. Unipro UGENE: a unified bioinformatics toolkit. Bioinformatics 28:1166–1167. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bts091 - DOI - PubMed

LinkOut - more resources