Complete Genome Sequence of Mycobacterium stephanolepidis

Hanako Fukano; Mitsunori Yoshida; Yukie Katayama; Tsutomu Omatsu; Tetsuya Mizutani; Osamu Kurata; Shinpei Wada; Yoshihiko Hoshino

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00810-17

Complete Genome Sequence of Mycobacterium stephanolepidis

Genome Announc. 2017 Aug 17;5(33):e00810-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00810-17.

Authors

Hanako Fukano¹, Mitsunori Yoshida¹, Yukie Katayama², Tsutomu Omatsu², Tetsuya Mizutani², Osamu Kurata³, Shinpei Wada³, Yoshihiko Hoshino⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Mycobacteriology, Leprosy Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan.
² Research and Education Center for Prevention of Global Infectious Diseases of Animals, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan.
³ The Laboratory of Aquatic Medicine, Nippon Veterinary and Life Science University, Musashino, Japan.
⁴ Department of Mycobacteriology, Leprosy Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan yhoshino@nih.go.jp.

Abstract

Mycobacterium stephanolepidis is a rapid-growing nonpigmented species isolated from marine teleost fish (Stephanolepis cirrhifer) and is closely related to Mycobacterium chelonae Here, we report the complete sequence of its genome, comprising a 4.9-Mb chromosome. The sequence represents essential data for future phylogenetic and comparative genome studies of this fish pathogen.