Genome Sequence of the Historical Clinical Isolate Burkholderia pseudomallei PHLS 6

Patrik D'haeseleer; Shannon L Johnson; Karen W Davenport; Patrick S Chain; Joe Schoeniger; Debjit Ray; Anupama Sinha; Kelly P Williams; José Peña; Steven S Branda; Sahar El-Etr

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00649-16

Genome Sequence of the Historical Clinical Isolate Burkholderia pseudomallei PHLS 6

Genome Announc. 2016 Jun 30;4(3):e00649-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00649-16.

Affiliations

¹ Biosciences and Biotechnology Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, California, USA.
² Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA.
³ Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Livermore, California, USA.
⁴ Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Livermore, California, USA sbranda@sandia.gov.

Abstract

Here, we present the draft genome sequence of Burkholderia pseudomallei PHLS 6, a virulent clinical strain isolated from a melioidosis patient in Bangladesh in 1960. The draft genome consists of 39 contigs and is 7,322,181 bp long.