Complete Genome Sequence of Mycobacterium bovis Strain BCG-1 (Russia)

Evgeniya A Sotnikova; Egor A Shitikov; Maja V Malakhova; Elena S Kostryukova; Elena N Ilina; Alena V Atrasheuskaya; Georgy M Ignatyev; Nataliya V Vinokurova; Vyacheslav Y Gorbachyov

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00182-16

Complete Genome Sequence of Mycobacterium bovis Strain BCG-1 (Russia)

Genome Announc. 2016 Mar 31;4(2):e00182-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00182-16.

Authors

Evgeniya A Sotnikova¹, Egor A Shitikov², Maja V Malakhova², Elena S Kostryukova², Elena N Ilina², Alena V Atrasheuskaya³, Georgy M Ignatyev³, Nataliya V Vinokurova³, Vyacheslav Y Gorbachyov³

Affiliations

¹ Federal Research and Clinical Center of Physical-Chemical Medicine of Federal Medical Biological Agency, Moscow, Russian Federation sotnikova.evgeniya@gmail.com.
² Federal Research and Clinical Center of Physical-Chemical Medicine of Federal Medical Biological Agency, Moscow, Russian Federation.
³ Microgen, Federal State Unitary Scientific-Industrial Company for Immunobiological Medicines of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russian Federation.

Abstract

Mycobacterium bovisBCG (Bacille Calmette-Guérin) is a vaccine strain used for protection against tuberculosis. Here, we announce the complete genome sequence ofM. bovisstrain BCG-1 (Russia). Extensive use of this strain necessitates the study of its genome stability by comparative analysis.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by grant no. 1078/14 from Microgen.