First Report on the Draft Genome Sequences of Corynebacterium diphtheriae Isolates from India

Balaji Veeraraghavan; Shalini Anandan; Suresh Kumar Rajamani Sekar; Radha Gopi; Naveen Kumar Devanga Ragupathi; Srilekha Ramesh; Valsan Philip Verghese; Sophy Korulla; Sarah Mathai; Lucky Sangal; Sudhir Joshi

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01316-16

First Report on the Draft Genome Sequences of Corynebacterium diphtheriae Isolates from India

Genome Announc. 2016 Nov 23;4(6):e01316-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01316-16.

Affiliations

¹ Department of Clinical Microbiology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India vbalaji@cmcvellore.ac.in.
² Department of Clinical Microbiology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India.
³ Department of Child Health, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India.
⁴ World Health Organisation, Country office, New Delhi, India.

Abstract

We report here the draft genome sequences of five Corynebacterium diphtheriae isolates of Indian origin. The C. diphtheriae isolates TH1141, TH510, TH1526, TH1337, and TH2031 belong to sequence type ST-50, ST-295, ST-377, ST-405, and ST-405, with an average genome size of 2.5 Mbp.

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