Complete Genome Sequence of the Gut Commensal and Laboratory Strain Enterococcus faecium 64/3

Jennifer K Bender; Stefan Fiedler; Ingo Klare; Guido Werner

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01275-15

Complete Genome Sequence of the Gut Commensal and Laboratory Strain Enterococcus faecium 64/3

Genome Announc. 2015 Nov 19;3(6):e01275-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01275-15.

Authors

Jennifer K Bender¹, Stefan Fiedler², Ingo Klare², Guido Werner²

Affiliations

¹ National Reference Centre for Staphylococci and Enterococci, Division of Nosocomial Pathogens and Antibiotic Resistances, Department of Infectious Diseases, Robert Koch Institute, Wernigerode Branch, Germany bender@rki.de.
² National Reference Centre for Staphylococci and Enterococci, Division of Nosocomial Pathogens and Antibiotic Resistances, Department of Infectious Diseases, Robert Koch Institute, Wernigerode Branch, Germany.

Abstract

The genome sequence of the commensal and widely used laboratory strain Enterococcus faecium 64/3 was resolved by means of PacificBioscience and Illumina whole-genome sequencing. The genome comprises 2,575,333 bp with 2,382 coding sequences as assigned by NCBI.