Draft Genome Sequence of Mycobacterium chimaera Type Strain Fl-0169

Stacy Pfaller; Vasily Tokarev; Collin Kessler; Christopher McLimans; Vicente Gomez-Alvarez; Justin Wright; Dawn King; Regina Lamendella

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01620-16

Draft Genome Sequence of Mycobacterium chimaera Type Strain Fl-0169

Genome Announc. 2017 Feb 23;5(8):e01620-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01620-16.

Authors

Stacy Pfaller¹, Vasily Tokarev², Collin Kessler², Christopher McLimans², Vicente Gomez-Alvarez³, Justin Wright², Dawn King⁴, Regina Lamendella²

Affiliations

¹ Office of Research and Development, National Exposure Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA pfaller.stacy@epa.gov.
² Department of Biology, Juniata College, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, USA.
³ Office of Research and Development, National Risk Management Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
⁴ Office of Research and Development, National Exposure Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

Abstract

We report here the draft genome sequence of the type strain Mycobacterium chimaera Fl-0169, a member of the Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC). M. chimaera Fl-0169^T was isolated from a patient in Italy and is highly similar to strains of M. chimaera isolated in Ireland, although Fl-0169^T possesses unique virulence genes.