Zika virus (ZIKV) is a negative sense RNA virus from the Flaviviridae family. ZIKV was a relatively unknown virus until the first epidemic in Micronesia in 2007 and further spread to French Polynesia
The ZIKV strain, PF13/251013-18, was obtained as a gift from Didier Musso at Institut Louis Malarde at 4 passages in Vero cells. This virus was passaged once in C6/36 cells to generate our laboratory
Here, we sequenced a ZIKV stock, strain PRVABC59, used for inoculation. The virus was originally isolated from a traveler to Puerto Rico and underwent three passages on Vero cells and two rounds of am