Complete Genome Sequences of Mycobacterium kansasii Strains Isolated from Rhesus Macaques

Aruna Panda; Sushma Nagaraj; Xuechu Zhao; Hervé Tettelin; Louis J DeTolla

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00187-17

Complete Genome Sequences of Mycobacterium kansasii Strains Isolated from Rhesus Macaques

Genome Announc. 2017 Apr 20;5(16):e00187-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00187-17.

Authors

Aruna Panda¹, Sushma Nagaraj², Xuechu Zhao², Hervé Tettelin³, Louis J DeTolla^{1

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pathology, and Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Program of Comparative Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
² Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
³ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA tettelin@som.umaryland.edu.
⁴ Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

Abstract

Mycobacterium kansasii is a nontuberculous mycobacterium. It causes opportunistic infections with pulmonary and extrapulmonary manifestations. We report here the complete genome sequences of two M. kansasii strains isolated from rhesus macaques. We performed genome comparisons with human and environmental isolates of M. kansasii to assess the genomic diversity of this species.