Complete genome sequence of a virulent African swine fever virus from a domestic pig in Ukraine

Here, we report the complete genome sequence of an African swine fever (ASF) virus (ASFV/Kyiv/2016/131) isolated from the spleen of a domestic pig in Ukraine with a lethal case of African swine fever. Using only long-read Nanopore sequences, we assembled a full-length genome of 191,911 base pairs in a single contig.

Authors: Ganna Kovalenko, Anne-Lise Ducluzeau, Liudmyla Ishchenko, Mykola Sushko, Maryna Sapachova, Nataliia Rudova, Oleksii Solodiankin, , Anton Gerilovych, Ralf Dagdag, Matthew Redlinger, Maksym Bezymennyi, Maciej Frant, Christian E. Lange, Inna Dubchak, Andrii A. Mezhenskyi, Serhiy Nychyk, Eric Bortz, Devin M. Drown