Draft Genome Sequence of Mycobacterium abscessus Bamboo

Michelle Yee; David Klinzing; Jun-Rong Wei; Martin Gengenbacher; Eric J Rubin; Thomas Dick

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00388-17

Draft Genome Sequence of Mycobacterium abscessus Bamboo

Genome Announc. 2017 May 18;5(20):e00388-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00388-17.

Authors

Michelle Yee¹, David Klinzing², Jun-Rong Wei^{3

4}, Martin Gengenbacher¹, Eric J Rubin^{3

4}, Thomas Dick^{5

6}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Republic of Singapore.
² AITbiotech Singapore, Singapore, Republic of Singapore.
³ Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁴ Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁵ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Republic of Singapore td367@njms.rutgers.edu.
⁶ Public Health Research Institute, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey, USA.

Abstract

Mycobacterium abscessus, an intrinsically multidrug-resistant pathogen, causes chronic incurable lung disease. New drugs for this emerging pathogen represent an urgent unmet medical need. Here, we report a draft genome sequence of M. abscessus Bamboo, a clinical isolate used as a screening strain for drug discovery.