Whole-Genome Sequence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Korean Strain KIT87190

Young Kil Park; Heeyoon Kang; Heekyung Yoo; Seung Heon Lee; Hanseong Roh; Hee Jin Kim; Sungweon Ryoo

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01103-14

Whole-Genome Sequence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Korean Strain KIT87190

Genome Announc. 2014 Oct 30;2(5):e01103-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01103-14.

Authors

Young Kil Park¹, Heeyoon Kang¹, Heekyung Yoo¹, Seung Heon Lee¹, Hanseong Roh², Hee Jin Kim¹, Sungweon Ryoo³

Affiliations

¹ Korean Institute of Tuberculosis, Osong, Chungbuk, Republic of Korea.
² Macrogen, Geumcheon-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
³ Korean Institute of Tuberculosis, Osong, Chungbuk, Republic of Korea viweon@naver.com.

Abstract

Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a contagious agent that causes tuberculosis. A specific type (called the K cluster) of M. tuberculosis with 10 copies of IS6110 in restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) has been found in about 4% of M. tuberculosis isolates in Korea. Here, we report the complete genome sequence of M. tuberculosis Korean strain KIT87190 belonging to the K cluster.