FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI "Frozen evolution" of an RNA virus suggests accidental release as a potential cause of arbovirus re-emergence BT AF PASCALL, David J. NOMIKOU, Kyriaki BREARD, Emmanuel ZIENTARA, Stephan FILIPE, Ana da Silva HOFFMANN, Bernd JACQUOT, Maude SINGER, Joshua B. DE CLERCQ, Kris BOTNER, Anette SAILLEAU, Corinne VIAROUGE, Cyril BATTEN, Carrie PUGGIONI, Giantonella LIGIOS, Ciriaco SAVINI, Giovanni VAN RIJN, Piet A. MERTENS, Peter P. C. BIEK, Roman PALMARINI, Massimo AS 1:1;2:2,3;3:4;4:4;5:2;6:5;7:6,7;8:2;9:8;10:9,10;11:4;12:4;13:11;14:12;15:12;16:13;17:14,15;18:3,11;19:1;20:2; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:;6:;7:;8:;9:;10:;11:;12:;13:;14:;15:;16:;17:;18:;19:;20:; C1 Univ Glasgow, Boyd Orr Ctr Populat & Ecosyst Hlth, Inst Biodivers Anim Hlth & Comparat Med, Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland. Univ Glasgow, MRC, Ctr Virus Res, Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland. Univ Nottingham, Sch Vet Med & Sci, Loughborough, Leics, England. Univ Paris Est, ANSES, Lab Sante Anim Alfort, UMR Virol,INRA,Ecole Natl Vet Alfort, Maisons Alfort, France. Friedrich Loeffler Inst, Inst Diagnost Virol, Greifswald, Germany. Univ Brussels, Spatial Epidemiol Lab SpELL, Brussels, Belgium. INRAE VetAgro Sup, UMR Epidemiol Anim & Zoonot Dis, St Genes Champanelle, France. Sciensano, Infect Dis Anim Exot & Particular Dis, Brussels, Belgium. Univ Copenhagen, Dept Vet & Anim Sci, Sect Vet Clin Microbiol, Copenhagen, Denmark. Statens Serum Inst, Dept Virus & Microbiol Special Diagnost, Copenhagen, Denmark. Pirbright Inst, Woking, Surrey, England. Ist Zooprofilatt Sperimentale Sardegna, Via Duca Abruzzi, Sassari, Italy. Ist Zooprofilatt Sperimentale Abruzzo & Molise IZ, Teramo, Italy. Wageningen Biovet Res WBVR, Dept Virol, Lelystad, Netherlands. North West Univ, Ctr Human Metabol, Dept Biochem, Potchefstroom, South Africa. C2 UNIV GLASGOW, UK UNIV GLASGOW, UK UNIV NOTTINGHAM, UK UNIV PARIS EST, FRANCE FRIEDRICH LOEFFLER INST, GERMANY UNIV BRUSSELS, BELGIUM INRAE, FRANCE SCIENSANO, BELGIUM UNIV COPENHAGEN, DENMARK STATENS SERUM INST, DENMARK PIRBRIGHT INST, UK IZSSAR, ITALY IZSSAM, ITALY UNIV WAGENINGEN, NETHERLANDS UNIV NORTH WEST, SOUTH AFRICA IN DOAJ IF 8.029 TC 11 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00667/77881/80035.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00667/77881/80036.cpgz https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00667/77881/80037.cpgz https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00667/77881/80038.cpgz https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00667/77881/80039.tif https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00667/77881/80040.tif https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00667/77881/80041.xlsx https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00667/77881/80064.pdf LA English DT Article AB The mechanisms underlying virus emergence are rarely well understood, making the appearance of outbreaks largely unpredictable. Bluetongue virus serotype 8 (BTV-8), an arthropod-borne virus of ruminants, emerged in livestock in northern Europe in 2006, spreading to most European countries by 2009 and causing losses of billions of euros. Although the outbreak was successfully controlled through vaccination by early 2010, puzzlingly, a closely related BTV-8 strain re-emerged in France in 2015, triggering a second outbreak that is still ongoing. The origin of this virus and the mechanisms underlying its re-emergence are unknown. Here, we performed phylogenetic analyses of 164 whole BTV-8 genomes sampled throughout the two outbreaks. We demonstrate consistent clock-like virus evolution during both epizootics but found negligible evolutionary change between them. We estimate that the ancestor of the second outbreak dates from the height of the first outbreak in 2008. This implies that the virus had not been replicating for multiple years prior to its re-emergence in 2015. Given the absence of any known natural mechanism that could explain BTV-8 persistence over this long period without replication, we hypothesise that the second outbreak could have been initiated by accidental exposure of livestock to frozen material contaminated with virus from approximately 2008. Our work highlights new targets for pathogen surveillance programmes in livestock and illustrates the power of genomic epidemiology to identify pathways of infectious disease emergence. PY 2020 PD APR SO Plos Biology SN 1544-9173 PU Public Library Science VL 18 IS 4 UT 000531804900020 DI 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000673 ID 77881 ER EF