Draft Genome Sequence of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex Pathogen M. mungi, Identified in a Banded Mongoose (Mungos mungo) in Northern Botswana

Kathleen A Alexander; Michelle H Larsen; Suelee Robbe-Austerman; Tod P Stuber; Patrick M Camp

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00471-16

Draft Genome Sequence of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex Pathogen M. mungi, Identified in a Banded Mongoose (Mungos mungo) in Northern Botswana

Genome Announc. 2016 Jul 28;4(4):e00471-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00471-16.

Authors

Kathleen A Alexander¹, Michelle H Larsen², Suelee Robbe-Austerman³, Tod P Stuber³, Patrick M Camp³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA CARACAL, Centre for Conservation of African Resources, Animals, Communities, and Land Use, Kasane, Botswana kathyalx@vt.edu.
² Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA.
³ Diagnostic Bacteriology Laboratory, National Veterinary Services Laboratories, Ames, Iowa, USA.

Abstract

Mycobacterium mungi, a Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex pathogen, has emerged in banded mongoose in northern Botswana and Northwest Zimbabwe. The pathogen is transmitted through infected secretions used in olfactory communication behavior (K. A. Alexander, C. E. Sanderson, M. H. Larsen, S. Robbe-Austerman, M. C. Williams, and M. V. Palmer, mBio 7(3):e00281-16, 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mBio.00281-16). We announce here the draft genome sequence of this emerging pathogen.

Grants and funding

U01 GM070694/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States