1 Department of Laboratory Medicine, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
2 Department of Laboratory Medicine, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan onishi@ks.kyorin-u.ac.jp.
3 National Reference Laboratory for Tuberculosis, Centro de Referência Professor Hélio Fraga, Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
4 Emerging Bacterial Pathogens Unit, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.
5 Department of Bacteriology, Niigata University Graduate School of Medicine, Niigata, Japan.
We report here the first draft genome sequence of Mycobacterium kyorinense, which was described in 2009 and exhibits significant pathogenicity to humans.