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11th Annual <strong>Sequencing</strong>, Finishing, and Analysis in the Future Meeting<br />

EXTENSIVE GENETIC HETEROGENEITY OF<br />

CIRCULATING RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS<br />

STRAINS REVEALED BY TARGETED, NEXT<br />

GENERATION WHOLE GENOME RNA SEQUENCING<br />

Wednesday, 1st June 15:00 La Fonda Ballroom Talk (OS‐3.04)<br />

Darrell Dinwiddie 1 , Kurt Schwalm 1 , Walter Dehority 1 , Joshua Kennedy 2 , Stephen Gross 3 ,<br />

Gary Schroth 3 , Stephen Young 4<br />

1 University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, 2 University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences<br />

Arkansas Children’s Hospital, 3 Illumina Inc, 4 TriCore Reference Laboratories<br />

Background: Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a major cause of childhood morbidity. Significant<br />

annual fluctuations in incidence and severity occur, yet the specific genetic variation that influences<br />

transmission, virulence, and pathogenesis for RSV is poorly understood.<br />

Methods: We developed a hybridization‐based method to target and enrich complete coding sequences<br />

of respiratory syncytial virus from clinical samples. The enriched samples undergo deep<br />

sequencing in a high‐throughput, multiplexed, rapid manner on the Illumina MiSeq. A custom<br />

bioinformatic pipeline is used to determine specific viruses, construct nearly complete genome sequences,<br />

assess viral gene expression, detect genetic variation and conduct phylogenetic analysis.<br />

Results: We have completed deep, next generation sequencing of 102 RSV positive samples across four<br />

infection seasons. Of the samples sequenced, we have generated complete or nearly complete genomes from<br />

69 of 102 (67.6%) samples and have covered >50% of the genome from 29 of 102 samples (28.4%). Together,<br />

96% of samples sequenced have >50% of their genomes sequenced. Alignment of sequencing reads to their<br />

appropriate prototype RSV A (NC_001803) and RSV B (AY353550) reference sequences produced an average<br />

of 410 variants (range 257‐474) and 466 variants (range 418‐510), respectively. The average number of<br />

non‐synonymous variants was 79 for both RSV A and RSV B samples. Strain and phylogenetic analysis reveal<br />

the presence of at least 6 distinct strains of RSV co‐circulating during the same infection season.<br />

Conclusions: Taken together, our data reveal that current clinical RSV isolates differ from signifi‐ cantly<br />

for their reference sequences and suggest that genetic diversity of co‐circulating RSV strains during the<br />

same infection season may be underappreciated. Evaluation of RSV by targeted, deep, next generation<br />

RNA sequencing provides important information about clinical viral isolates cur‐ rently not detected<br />

by clinical testing that may reveal genetic factors that impact clinical severity of illness and inform<br />

clinical management.<br />

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