Two Nearly Complete Nosocomial Pathogen Genome Sequences Reconstructed from Early-Middle 20th-Century Dental Calculus

LaShanda Williams; Carla Cugini; Siobain Duffy

doi:10.1128/MRA.00850-20

Two Nearly Complete Nosocomial Pathogen Genome Sequences Reconstructed from Early-Middle 20th-Century Dental Calculus

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 Oct 22;9(43):e00850-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00850-20.

Authors

LaShanda Williams¹, Carla Cugini², Siobain Duffy³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA lrw68@rutgers.edu.
² Department of Oral Biology, Rutgers School of Dental Medicine, Newark, New Jersey, USA.
³ Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.

Abstract

Acinetobacter baumannii and Stenotrophomonas maltophilia genomes were reconstructed from early-middle 20th-century human skeletal remains, maintained in natural history museums, using a metagenomic binning approach.