Ten Genome Sequences of Human and Livestock Isolates of Bacillus anthracis from the Country of Georgia

Ekaterine Khmaladze; Giorgi Dzavashvili; Gvantsa Chanturia; Mikeljon P Nikolich; Patrick S G Chain; Shannon L Johnson; Paata Imnadze

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00256-17

Ten Genome Sequences of Human and Livestock Isolates of Bacillus anthracis from the Country of Georgia

Genome Announc. 2017 May 11;5(19):e00256-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00256-17.

Authors

Ekaterine Khmaladze^{1

2}, Giorgi Dzavashvili^{3

4}, Gvantsa Chanturia³, Mikeljon P Nikolich^{5

6}, Patrick S G Chain⁷, Shannon L Johnson⁷, Paata Imnadze³

Affiliations

¹ National Center for Disease Control & Public Health (NCDC), Tbilisi, Georgia e.khmaladze@ncdc.ge.
² Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia.
³ National Center for Disease Control & Public Health (NCDC), Tbilisi, Georgia.
⁴ Georgian American University, Tbilisi, Georgia.
⁵ U.S. Army Medical Research Unit-Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia.
⁶ Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA.
⁷ Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA.

Abstract

Bacillus anthracis causes the acute fatal disease anthrax, is a proven biological weapon, and is endemic in Georgia, where human and animal cases are reported annually. Here, we present whole-genome sequences of 10 historical B. anthracis strains from Georgia.