Whole-Genome Sequence of Streptococcus agalactiae Strain S13, Isolated from a Fish Eye from a Nile Tilapia Farm in Southern Brazil

César T Facimoto; Roberta T Chideroli; Daniela D Gonçalves; Anderson O do Carmo; Evanguedes Kalaphotakis; Ulisses de Pádua Pereira

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00917-17

Whole-Genome Sequence of Streptococcus agalactiae Strain S13, Isolated from a Fish Eye from a Nile Tilapia Farm in Southern Brazil

Genome Announc. 2017 Aug 31;5(35):e00917-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00917-17.

Authors

César T Facimoto¹, Roberta T Chideroli¹, Daniela D Gonçalves², Anderson O do Carmo³, Evanguedes Kalaphotakis³, Ulisses de Pádua Pereira⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Laboratory of Bacteriology in Fish (LABBEP), Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, Brazil.
² Department of Preventive Veterinary Medicine and Public Health, Universidade Paranaense, Umuarama, Brazil.
³ Institute of Biological Science (ICB), Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
⁴ Department of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Laboratory of Bacteriology in Fish (LABBEP), Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, Brazil upaduapereira@uel.br.

Abstract

Streptococcus agalactiae is an important pathogen to world aquaculture due to its high mortality rates in fish farms and consequent economic losses. Our study presents the complete genome sequence of strain S13, isolated from a tilapia farm outbreak in southern Brazil.