Complete Genome Sequence of Brucella abortus 68, Isolated from Aborted Fetal Sheep in Ukraine

Vitaliy Bolotin; Ganna Kovalenko; Nataliia Marchenko; Oleksii Solodiankin; Nataliia Rudova; Valentina Kutsenko; Eric Bortz; Anton Gerilovych; Devin M Drown

doi:10.1128/MRA.01436-20

Complete Genome Sequence of Brucella abortus 68, Isolated from Aborted Fetal Sheep in Ukraine

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2021 Mar 11;10(10):e01436-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01436-20.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ National Scientific Center Institute of Experimental and Clinical Veterinary Medicine (NSC IECVM), Kharkiv, Ukraine dmdrown@alaska.edu vbolotin@hotmail.de.
² National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine, Institute for Veterinary Medicine (IVM), Kyiv, Ukraine.
³ National Scientific Center Institute of Experimental and Clinical Veterinary Medicine (NSC IECVM), Kharkiv, Ukraine.
⁴ Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, Alaska, USA.
⁵ Department of Biology and Wildlife, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA dmdrown@alaska.edu vbolotin@hotmail.de.
⁶ Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA.

Abstract

The complete genome sequence of Brucella abortus 68, isolated from an aborted sheep fetus in Luhansk, Ukraine, was assembled using Nanopore sequences. Two circular chromosomes totaling 3,281,317 bp (N ₅₀, 2,124,943 bp) comprised the complete genome sequence. The strain encodes the fosfomycin antibiotic resistance gene fosX, highlighting the risk of cross-species livestock and human infection.

Grants and funding

P20 GM103395/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States