Genome Sequence of the Soviet/Russian Bacillus anthracis Vaccine Strain 55-VNIIVViM

Jason Farlow; Adam Kotorashvili

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01401-16

Genome Sequence of the Soviet/Russian Bacillus anthracis Vaccine Strain 55-VNIIVViM

Genome Announc. 2016 Dec 22;4(6):e01401-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01401-16.

Authors

Jason Farlow¹, Adam Kotorashvili²

Affiliations

¹ Farlow Scientific Consulting Company, LLC, Lewiston, Utah, USA farlowscience@gmail.com.
² Lugar Center for Public Health Research at National Center for Disease Control, Tbilisi, Georgia.

Abstract

Bacillus anthracis strain 55-VNIIVViM is a live-attenuated nonencapsulated Soviet/Russian veterinary anthrax vaccine strain. We report here the genome of 55-VNIIVViM and confirm its phylogenetic placement in the global population structure of B. anthracis.

Grants and funding

The work was made possible in part through funding by the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency's Cooperative Biological Engagement Program administered by Metabiota.