1 Agence Nationale de Sécurité Sanitaire de l'Alimentation, de l'Environnement et du Travail, Unité Virologie, Immunité et Parasitologie Aviaires et Cunicoles, OIE Reference Laboratory for Infectious Bursal Disease, Ploufragan, France.
2 Labocea, Ploufragan, France.
3 SELAS du Gouessant, Lamballe, France.
4 Agence Nationale de Sécurité Sanitaire de l'Alimentation, de l'Environnement et du Travail, Unité Génétique Virale et Biosécurité, Ploufragan, France.
5 Department of Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, Bangladesh.
We report the full-length genome sequence (compared to reference sequences) of a novel European variant strain of infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV), designated 19P009381 (AxB1). This should help to further identify such viruses in Europe.