Complete Genome Sequence of Bartonella ancashensis Strain 20.00, Isolated from the Blood of a Patient with Verruga Peruana

Jun Hang; Kristin E Mullins; Robert J Clifford; Fatma Onmus-Leone; Yu Yang; Ju Jiang; Mariana Leguia; Matthew R Kasper; Ciro Maguiña; Emil P Lesho; Richard G Jarman; Allen L Richards; David Blazes

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01217-15

Complete Genome Sequence of Bartonella ancashensis Strain 20.00, Isolated from the Blood of a Patient with Verruga Peruana

Genome Announc. 2015 Nov 5;3(6):e01217-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01217-15.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA.
² Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, USA Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA kristin.e.mullins3.ctr@mail.mil.
³ Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA.
⁴ U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 6, Lima, Peru.
⁵ Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru.
⁶ Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.

Abstract

Here we present the complete genome sequence of Bartonella ancashensis strain 20.00, isolated from the blood of a Peruvian patient with verruga peruana, known as Carrion's disease. Bartonella ancashensis is a Gram-negative bacillus, phylogenetically most similar to Bartonella bacilliformis, the causative agent of Oroya fever and verruga peruana.