Draft Genome Sequence of Catabacter hongkongensis Type Strain HKU16T, Isolated from a Patient with Bacteremia and Intestinal Obstruction

Susanna K P Lau; Jade L L Teng; Yi Huang; Shirly O T Curreem; Stephen K W Tsui; Patrick C Y Woo

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00531-15

Draft Genome Sequence of Catabacter hongkongensis Type Strain HKU16T, Isolated from a Patient with Bacteremia and Intestinal Obstruction

Genome Announc. 2015 May 21;3(3):e00531-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00531-15.

Authors

Susanna K P Lau¹, Jade L L Teng², Yi Huang², Shirly O T Curreem², Stephen K W Tsui³, Patrick C Y Woo¹

Affiliations

¹ skplau@hkucc.hku.hk pcywoo@hkucc.hku.hk.
² Department of Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
³ School of Biomedical Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.

Abstract

We report the draft genome sequence of Catabacter hongkongensis, a catalase-positive bacterium which causes bacteremia with high mortality. The 3.2-Mb genome contains 3,161 protein coding sequences, including putative catalase and motility-related proteins, and antibiotic resistance genes, which could be important for its virulence and adaptation to diverse environments.