Finished Genome Sequence of Bacillus cereus Strain 03BB87, a Clinical Isolate with B. anthracis Virulence Genes

Shannon L Johnson; Timothy D Minogue; Hazuki Teshima; Karen W Davenport; April A Shea; Haven L Miner; Mark J Wolcott; Patrick S G Chain

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01446-14

Finished Genome Sequence of Bacillus cereus Strain 03BB87, a Clinical Isolate with B. anthracis Virulence Genes

Genome Announc. 2015 Jan 15;3(1):e01446-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01446-14.

Authors

Shannon L Johnson¹, Timothy D Minogue², Hazuki Teshima³, Karen W Davenport³, April A Shea², Haven L Miner², Mark J Wolcott², Patrick S G Chain³

Affiliations

¹ Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), BioScience Division, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA shannonj@lanl.gov.
² U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Diagnostic Systems Division (DSD), Frederick, Maryland, USA.
³ Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), BioScience Division, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA.

Abstract

Bacillus cereus strain 03BB87, a blood culture isolate, originated in a 56-year-old male muller operator with a fatal case of pneumonia in 2003. Here we present the finished genome sequence of that pathogen, including a 5.46-Mb chromosome and two plasmids (209 and 52 Kb, respectively).