Draft Genome Sequence of the First Human Isolate of the Ruminant Pathogen Mycoplasma capricolum subsp. capricolum

Frederik Valeur Seersholm; Anne Fischer; Martin Heller; Joerg Jores; Konrad Sachse; Tobias Mourier; Anders Johannes Hansen

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00583-15

Draft Genome Sequence of the First Human Isolate of the Ruminant Pathogen Mycoplasma capricolum subsp. capricolum

Genome Announc. 2015 Jun 18;3(3):e00583-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00583-15.

Authors

Frederik Valeur Seersholm¹, Anne Fischer, Martin Heller², Joerg Jores, Konrad Sachse², Tobias Mourier³, Anders Johannes Hansen³

Affiliations

¹ Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark frederikseersholm@gmail.com.
² Institute of Molecular Pathogenesis, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Jena, Germany.
³ Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Abstract

Mycoplasma capricolum subsp. capricolum is a well-known pathogen of small ruminants. A recent human case of septicemia involving this agent raised the question of its potential pathogenicity to humans. We present the first draft genome sequence of a human Mycoplasma capricolum subsp. capricolum isolate.