Pacmanvirus S19, the Second Pacmanvirus Isolated from Sewage Waters in Oran, Algeria.
Khalil Geballa-KoukoulasSouhila AbdiBernard La ScolaGuillaume BlancJulien AndreaniPublished in: Microbiology resource announcements (2021)
Acanthamoeba castellanii is an amoeba host that was used to isolate a novel strain named pacmanvirus S19. This isolate is the second strain reported and belongs to the extended Asfarviridae family. Pacmanvirus S19 harbors a 418,588-bp genome, with a GC content of 33.20%, which encodes 444 predicted proteins and a single Ile-tRNA.