Complete Genome Sequence of a New Zealand Isolate of the Bovine Pathogen Streptococcus uberis

George Taiaroa; Nichaela Harbison-Price; Scott A Ferguson; Glen P Carter; Deborah A Williamson; Richard C Macknight; Gregory M Cook; Adam Heikal

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00119-18

Complete Genome Sequence of a New Zealand Isolate of the Bovine Pathogen Streptococcus uberis

Genome Announc. 2018 Mar 1;6(9):e00119-18. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00119-18.

Authors

George Taiaroa^{1

2}, Nichaela Harbison-Price³, Scott A Ferguson³, Glen P Carter^{4

5}, Deborah A Williamson^{4

5}, Richard C Macknight², Gregory M Cook³, Adam Heikal^{6

7}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand george.taiaroa@otago.ac.nz.
² Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
³ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
⁴ Doherty Applied Microbial Genomics, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Melbourne at The Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Australia.
⁵ Microbiological Diagnostic Unit Public Health Laboratory, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Melbourne at The Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Australia.
⁶ Centre for Integrative Microbial Evolution (CIME), Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
⁷ Laboratory for Microbial Dynamics (LaMDa), Section for Pharmaceutical Biosciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.

Abstract

Streptococcus uberis forms part of the native microbiota of cattle and is able to opportunistically infect the mammary gland; as such, it is a leading cause of bovine mastitis globally. Here, we report the complete genome sequence of S. uberis NZ01, isolated in New Zealand from a cow with a clinical case of bovine mastitis.