Genome Sequences of Two Brucella suis Strains Isolated from the Same Patient, 8 Years Apart

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.01687-16

Genome Sequences of Two Brucella suis Strains Isolated from the Same Patient, 8 Years Apart

Genome Announc. 2017 Mar 2;5(9):e01687-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01687-16.

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, 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 suis is a Gram-negative, facultative intracellular pathogen that has pigs as its preferred host, but it can also infect humans. Here, we report the draft genome sequences of two B. suis strains that were isolated from the same patient, 8 years apart.

Grants and funding

HHSN272201400027C/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States