Draft Genome and Plasmid Sequences of Chlamydia pneumoniae Strain B21 from an Australian Endangered Marsupial, the Western Barred Bandicoot

Eileen Roulis; Nathan Bachmann; Adam Polkinghorne; Margaret Hammerschlag; Stephan Kohlhoff; Peter Timms

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01223-13

Draft Genome and Plasmid Sequences of Chlamydia pneumoniae Strain B21 from an Australian Endangered Marsupial, the Western Barred Bandicoot

Genome Announc. 2014 Feb 6;2(1):e01223-13. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01223-13.

Authors

Eileen Roulis¹, Nathan Bachmann, Adam Polkinghorne, Margaret Hammerschlag, Stephan Kohlhoff, Peter Timms

Affiliation

¹ Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Queensland, Australia.

Abstract

Chlamydia pneumoniae is a ubiquitous intracellular pathogen, first associated with human respiratory disease and subsequently detected in a range of mammals, amphibians, and reptiles. Here we report the draft genome sequence for strain B21 of C. pneumoniae, isolated from the endangered Australian marsupial the western barred bandicoot.