PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Trösemeier, Jan-Hendrik AU - Musso, Didier AU - Blümel, Johannes AU - Thézé, Julien AU - Pybus, Oliver G. AU - Baylis, Sally A. TI - Genome Sequence of a Candidate World Health Organization Reference Strain of Zika Virus for Nucleic Acid Testing AID - 10.1128/genomeA.00917-16 DP - 2016 Oct 27 TA - Genome Announcements PG - e00917-16 VI - 4 IP - 5 4099 - http://mra.asm.org/content/4/5/e00917-16.short 4100 - http://mra.asm.org/content/4/5/e00917-16.full SO - Genome Announcements2016 Oct 27; 4 AB - We report here the sequence of a candidate reference strain of Zika virus (ZIKV) developed on behalf of the World Health Organization (WHO). The ZIKV reference strain is intended for use in nucleic acid amplification (NAT)-based assays for the detection and quantification of ZIKV RNA.