文摘
Newcastle disease virus with velogenic characteristics circulates in the poultry industry in Mexico and various other American countries. In Mexico, vaccine efficacy testing to obtain commercial registration is reliant on a challenge with a velogenic strain known colloquially as Chimalhuacan due to the site where it was isolated. In this paper, we performed a full genome sequencing of the Chimalhuacan strain. The strain belongs to Class II of?APMV, particularly genotype V. The viral RNA genome is 15,192?nt in size and contains six genes: 3-NP-P-M-F-HN-L 5- The 3-leader sequence is 55?nt in size and the 5-trailer sequence 113?nt. The deduced amino acid sequence confirms a velogenic genotype with four basic amino acids at the cleavage site: 112RRQKR?/sup>F117. In addition, evolutionary relatedness based on the gene sequence of the fusion protein indicates that this strain is the ancestor of the strains currently circulating in Mexico.