Complete Genome Sequence of Actinobaculum schaalii Strain CCUG 27420

Rikke Kristiansen; Morten S Dueholm; Steffen Bank; Per Halkjær Nielsen; Søren M Karst; Vincent Cattoir; Reto Lienhard; Andrea J Grisold; Anne Buchhave Olsen; Mark Reinhard; Karen Marie Søby; Jens Jørgen Christensen; Jørgen Prag; Trine R Thomsen

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00880-14

Complete Genome Sequence of Actinobaculum schaalii Strain CCUG 27420

Genome Announc. 2014 Sep 4;2(5):e00880-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00880-14.

Affiliations

¹ Center for Microbial Communities, Department of Biotechnology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark.
² Department of Clinical Microbiology, Viborg Regional Hospital, Viborg, Denmark.
³ CHU de Caen, Department of Microbiology, Caen, France.
⁴ ADMED, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.
⁵ Institute of Hygiene, Microbiology and Environmental Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria.
⁶ Department of Urology, Viborg Regional Hospital, Viborg, Denmark.
⁷ Department of Internal Medicine, Viborg Regional Hospital, Viborg, Denmark.
⁸ Department of Clinical Microbiology, Slagelse Hospital, Slagelse, Denmark.
⁹ trt@teknologisk.dk.

Abstract

Complete genome sequencing of the emerging uropathogen Actinobaculum schaalii indicates that an important mechanism of its virulence is attachment pili, which allow the organism to adhere to the surface of animal cells, greatly enhancing the ability of this organism to colonize the urinary tract.