Genome Sequences of Three Brucella canis Strains Isolated from Humans and a Dog

Marcus Vinicius Canário Viana; Alice Rebecca Wattam; Dhwani Govil Batra; Sébastien Boisvert; Thomas Scott Brettin; Michael Frace; Fangfang Xia; Vasco Azevedo; Rebekah Tiller; Alex R Hoffmaster

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01688-16

Genome Sequences of Three Brucella canis Strains Isolated from Humans and a Dog

Genome Announc. 2017 Feb 23;5(8):e01688-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01688-16.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Laboratório de Genética Celular e Molecular, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
² Biocomplexity Institute of Virginia Tech, Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA rwattam@vbi.vt.edu.
³ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
⁴ Gydle, Inc., Québec, Canada.
⁵ Computing, Environment and Life Sciences, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, USA.
⁶ Computation Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
⁷ Biotechnology Core Facility Branch, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
⁸ Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, USA.
⁹ Bacterial Special Pathogens Branch, Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Abstract

Brucella canis is a facultative intracellular pathogen that preferentially infects members of the Canidae family. Here, we report the genome sequencing of two Brucella canis strains isolated from humans and one isolated from a dog host.

Grants and funding

HHSN272201400027C/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States