Genome Sequence of Historical Bacillus anthracis Strain Tyrol 4675 Isolated from a Bovine Anthrax Case in Austria

Markus Antwerpen; Roman Wölfel; Gregor Grass

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00002-17

Genome Sequence of Historical Bacillus anthracis Strain Tyrol 4675 Isolated from a Bovine Anthrax Case in Austria

Genome Announc. 2017 Mar 9;5(10):e00002-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00002-17.

Authors

Markus Antwerpen¹, Roman Wölfel¹, Gregor Grass²

Affiliations

¹ Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany.
² Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany gregorgrass@bundeswehr.org.

Abstract

In 1988, an outbreak of anthrax occurred among cattle in the Austrian state of Tyrol. Since then, Austria has been declared anthrax-free. Here, we report the draft genome sequence of one of these last outbreak strains, Bacillus anthracis Tyrol 4675, isolated from a diseased cow.