Complete Genome Sequence of Legionella sainthelensi Isolated from a Patient with Legionnaires' Disease

Sandy Slow; Trevor Anderson; Patrick Biggs; Martin Kennedy; David Murdoch; Simone Cree

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01588-17

Complete Genome Sequence of Legionella sainthelensi Isolated from a Patient with Legionnaires' Disease

Genome Announc. 2018 Feb 1;6(5):e01588-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01588-17.

Authors

Sandy Slow¹, Trevor Anderson², Patrick Biggs³, Martin Kennedy⁴, David Murdoch⁴, Simone Cree⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pathology and Biomedical Science, University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand sandy.slow@otago.ac.nz.
² Microbiology, Canterbury Health Laboratories, Christchurch, New Zealand.
³ Molecular Epidemiology and Veterinary Public Health Laboratory, Infectious Disease Research Centre, Institute of Veterinary, Animal and Biomedical Science, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
⁴ Department of Pathology and Biomedical Science, University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Abstract

Legionella sainthelensi is an aquatic environmental bacterium that in humans can cause Legionnaires' disease (LD), an often severe form of pneumonia. Here, we report the first complete genome of a L. sainthelensi clinical isolate obtained in 2001 from a patient with LD in Canterbury, New Zealand.