High-Quality Genome Sequence of Bacillus anthracis Strain 14RA5914 Isolated during an Outbreak in Germany in 2014

Mandy C Elschner; Anne Busch; Annette Schliephake; Wolfgang Gaede; Eric Zuchantke; Herbert Tomaso

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01002-17

High-Quality Genome Sequence of Bacillus anthracis Strain 14RA5914 Isolated during an Outbreak in Germany in 2014

Genome Announc. 2017 Oct 5;5(40):e01002-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01002-17.

Authors

Mandy C Elschner¹, Anne Busch², Annette Schliephake³, Wolfgang Gaede³, Eric Zuchantke², Herbert Tomaso²

Affiliations

¹ Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Institute of Bacterial Infections and Zoonoses, Jena, Germany mandy.elschner@fli.de.
² Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Institute of Bacterial Infections and Zoonoses, Jena, Germany.
³ Department of Veterinary Medicine, State Institute for Consumer Protection of Saxony-Anhalt, Stendal, Germany.

Abstract

Bacillus anthracis is a zoonotic agent causing anthrax, a notifiable disease in animals. The last anthrax outbreak among cattle in Germany occurred in April 2014 in Saxony-Anhalt. Here we report a high-quality genome sequence of the Bacillus anthracis strain 14RA5914 Dobichau isolated from the spleen of a dead cow.