Draft Genome Sequence of Clostridium butyricum Strain NOR 33234, Isolated from an Elderly Patient with Diarrhea

Jamie S L Kwok; Margaret Ip; Ting-Fung Chan; Wai-Yip Lam; Stephen K W Tsui

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01356-14

Draft Genome Sequence of Clostridium butyricum Strain NOR 33234, Isolated from an Elderly Patient with Diarrhea

Genome Announc. 2014 Dec 24;2(6):e01356-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01356-14.

Authors

Jamie S L Kwok¹, Margaret Ip², Ting-Fung Chan³, Wai-Yip Lam¹, Stephen K W Tsui⁴

Affiliations

¹ School of Biomedical Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
² Department of Microbiology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
³ School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
⁴ kwtsui@cuhk.edu.hk.

Abstract

Clostridium butyricum is one of the species frequently present in patients' stool samples. However, the identification of this species is sometimes difficult. Here, we present the draft genome of Clostridium butyricum NOR 33234, which was isolated from a patient with suspected Clostridium difficile infection-associated diarrhea and resembles Clostridium clostridioforme in biochemical tests.