Genome Sequence of a Clinical Isolate of the Human Pathogenic Strain " Candidatus Borrelia fainii" Qtaro

Kentaro Itokawa; Kozue Sato; Yongjin Qiu; Jyunya Yamagishi; Katendi Changula; Naoko Kawai; Kyoko Hayashida; Joseph Ndebe; Bernard Mudenda Hang'ombe; Hirofumi Sawa; Shinji Kasai; Yukihiro Akeda; Hiroki Kawabata

doi:10.1128/mra.01318-22

Genome Sequence of a Clinical Isolate of the Human Pathogenic Strain " Candidatus Borrelia fainii" Qtaro

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2023 May 17;12(5):e0131822. doi: 10.1128/mra.01318-22. Epub 2023 Apr 19.

Authors

Kentaro Itokawa^#¹, Kozue Sato^#², Yongjin Qiu^{3

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5}, Jyunya Yamagishi⁶, Katendi Changula⁷, Naoko Kawai⁶, Kyoko Hayashida⁶, Joseph Ndebe⁸, Bernard Mudenda Hang'ombe^{7

9}, Hirofumi Sawa^{5

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14}, Shinji Kasai¹, Yukihiro Akeda², Hiroki Kawabata²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medical Entomology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan.
² Department of Bacteriology I, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan.
³ Management Department of Biosafety, Laboratory Animal, and Pathogen Bank, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan.
⁴ Department of Virology I, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan.
⁵ Division of International Research Promotion, International Institute for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan.
⁶ Division of Collaboration and Education, International Institute for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan.
⁷ Department of Paraclinical Studies, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia.
⁸ Department of Disease Control, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia.
⁹ Africa Centre of Excellence for Infectious Diseases of Humans and Animals, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia.
¹⁰ Division of Molecular Pathobiology, International Institute for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan.
¹¹ One Health Research Center, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan.
¹² Global Virus Network, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
¹³ International Collaboration Unit, International Institute for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan.
¹⁴ Hokkaido University, Institute for Vaccine Research and Development, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

We report sequences of the complete linear chromosome and five linear plasmids of the relapsing fever spirochete "Candidatus Borrelia fainii" Qtaro. The chromosome sequence of 951,861 bp and the 243,291 bp of plasmid sequences were predicted to contain 852 and 239 protein-coding genes, respectively. The predicted total GC content was 28.4%.

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