Draft Genome Sequence of an Invasive Streptococcus agalactiae Isolate Lacking Pigmentation

Pallavi Singh; David M Aronoff; H Dele Davies; Shannon D Manning

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00015-16

Draft Genome Sequence of an Invasive Streptococcus agalactiae Isolate Lacking Pigmentation

Genome Announc. 2016 Feb 25;4(1):e00015-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00015-16.

Authors

Pallavi Singh¹, David M Aronoff², H Dele Davies³, Shannon D Manning⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.
² Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
³ University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA.
⁴ Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA mannin71@msu.edu.

Abstract

This report provides the whole-genome sequence of Streptococcus agalactiae isolate GB00037 isolated from a newborn in Calgary, Canada. This serotype V isolate is unique because it lacks pigment production previously shown to be critical for S. agalactiae virulence.