Session III
The benefits of complete genome sequencing have become increasingly clear, for example the identification of emergent lineages with altered phenotypic characteristics or the fine scale tracking of virus movements. Indeed, in the UK in 2007 complete genome sequencing enabled the tracing of an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV), in turn allowing the identification of a missing premises.
Previously, we showed that it was possible to sequence the capsid-coding region of the FMDV genome using nanopore sequencing technology (Oxford Nanopore Technologies) following amplification of the P1 region by RT-PCR. Here, we designed a universal RT-PCR based amplification strategy for the amplification of complete FMDV genomes prior to nanopore sequencing using the MinION sequencer.