Whole-Genome Sequencing of Two Bartonella bacilliformis Strains

Yolanda Guillen; Maria Casadellà; Ruth García-de-la-Guarda; Abraham Espinoza-Culupú; Roger Paredes; Joaquim Ruiz; Marc Noguera-Julian

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00659-16

Whole-Genome Sequencing of Two Bartonella bacilliformis Strains

Genome Announc. 2016 Jul 7;4(4):e00659-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00659-16.

Authors

Yolanda Guillen¹, Maria Casadellà², Ruth García-de-la-Guarda³, Abraham Espinoza-Culupú³, Roger Paredes⁴, Joaquim Ruiz⁵, Marc Noguera-Julian⁶

Affiliations

¹ irsiCaixa AIDS Research Institute, Badalona, Catalonia, Spain.
² irsiCaixa AIDS Research Institute, Badalona, Catalonia, Spain Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain.
³ Laboratorio de Microbiología Molecular y Biotecnología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru.
⁴ irsiCaixa AIDS Research Institute, Badalona, Catalonia, Spain Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain Universitat de Vic-Universitat Central de Catalunya, Vic, Catalonia, Spain Unitat VIH, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Catalonia, Spain.
⁵ ISGlobal, Barcelona Centre for International Health Research (CRESIB), Hospital Clínic, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
⁶ irsiCaixa AIDS Research Institute, Badalona, Catalonia, Spain Universitat de Vic-Universitat Central de Catalunya, Vic, Catalonia, Spain mnoguera@irsicaixa.es.

Abstract

Bartonella bacilliformis is the causative agent of Carrion's disease, a highly endemic human bartonellosis in Peru. We performed a whole-genome assembly of two B. bacilliformis strains isolated from the blood of infected patients in the acute phase of Carrion's disease from the Cusco and Piura regions in Peru.