Genome Assemblies for 11 Yersinia pestis Strains Isolated in the Caucasus Region

Ekaterine Zhgenti; Shannon L Johnson; Karen W Davenport; Gvantsa Chanturia; Hajnalka E Daligault; Patrick S Chain; Mikeljon P Nikolich

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01030-15

Genome Assemblies for 11 Yersinia pestis Strains Isolated in the Caucasus Region

Genome Announc. 2015 Sep 17;3(5):e01030-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01030-15.

Authors

Ekaterine Zhgenti¹, Shannon L Johnson², Karen W Davenport³, Gvantsa Chanturia¹, Hajnalka E Daligault³, Patrick S Chain³, Mikeljon P Nikolich⁴

Affiliations

¹ National Center for Disease Control and Public Health (NCDC), Tbilisi, Georgia.
² Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA shannonj@lanl.gov.
³ Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA.
⁴ Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR), Silver Spring, Maryland, USA.

Abstract

Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague, is endemic to the Caucasus region but few reference strain genome sequences from that region are available. Here, we present the improved draft or finished assembled genomes from 11 strains isolated in the nation of Georgia and surrounding countries.