Six Whole-Genome Assemblies of Yersinia pestis subsp. microtus bv. ulegeica (Phylogroup 0.PE5) Strains Isolated from Mongolian Natural Plague Foci

Angelina A Kislichkina; Alexandr G Bogun; Lidiya A Kadnikova; Nadezhda V Maiskaya; Viktor I Solomentsev; Angelika A Sizova; Svetlana V Dentovskaya; Sergey V Balakhonov; Andrey P Anisimov

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00536-18

Six Whole-Genome Assemblies of Yersinia pestis subsp. microtus bv. ulegeica (Phylogroup 0.PE5) Strains Isolated from Mongolian Natural Plague Foci

Genome Announc. 2018 Jun 21;6(25):e00536-18. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00536-18.

Authors

Angelina A Kislichkina¹, Alexandr G Bogun², Lidiya A Kadnikova², Nadezhda V Maiskaya², Viktor I Solomentsev², Angelika A Sizova², Svetlana V Dentovskaya², Sergey V Balakhonov³, Andrey P Anisimov¹

Affiliations

¹ State Research Center for Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Obolensk, Russia angelinakislichkina@yandex.ru anisimov@obolensk.org.
² State Research Center for Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Obolensk, Russia.
³ Irkutsk Antiplague Research Institute of Siberia and the Far East, Irkutsk, Russia.

Abstract

Here, we report the draft genome sequences of six Yersinia pestis subsp. microtus bv. ulegeica strains isolated from the territory of Mongolia and representing the 0.PE5 phylogroup circulating in populations of voles and picas.