Draft Genome Sequences of Mycobacterium kansasii Clinical Strains

Paulina Borówka; Jakub Lach; Zofia Bakuła; Jakko van Ingen; Aleksandra Safianowska; Anna Brzostek; Jarosław Dziadek; Dominik Strapagiel; Tomasz Jagielski

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00406-17

Draft Genome Sequences of Mycobacterium kansasii Clinical Strains

Genome Announc. 2017 Jun 1;5(22):e00406-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00406-17.

Authors

Paulina Borówka¹, Jakub Lach², Zofia Bakuła³, Jakko van Ingen⁴, Aleksandra Safianowska⁵, Anna Brzostek⁶, Jarosław Dziadek⁶, Dominik Strapagiel⁷, Tomasz Jagielski⁸

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anthropology, University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland.
² University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland.
³ Department of Applied Microbiology, Faculty of Biology, Institute of Microbiology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
⁴ Department of Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
⁵ Department of Internal Medicine, Pulmonology, and Allergology, Warsaw Medical University, Warsaw, Poland.
⁶ Mycobacterium Genetics and Physiology Unit, Institute of Medical Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Lódź, Poland.
⁷ Biobank Lab, Department of Molecular Biophysics, University of Lódź, Lódź, Poland.
⁸ Department of Applied Microbiology, Faculty of Biology, Institute of Microbiology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland t.jagielski@biol.uw.edu.pl.

Abstract

Mycobacterium kansasii is a nontuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) pathogen, frequently isolated from clinical samples and responsible for a large part of NTM infections in the human population. Here, we report the draft genome sequences of 12 M. kansasii strains isolated from clinical and host-associated sources from the Netherlands, Germany, and Poland.