Draft Genome Sequence of Bacillus anthracis Strain Sterne 09RA8929

Anne Busch; Mandy Carolina Elschner; Daniela Jacob; Roland Grunow; Herbert Tomaso

doi:10.1128/MRA.00972-18

Draft Genome Sequence of Bacillus anthracis Strain Sterne 09RA8929

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2018 Oct 11;7(14):e00972-18. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00972-18. eCollection 2018 Oct.

Authors

Anne Busch¹, Mandy Carolina Elschner¹, Daniela Jacob², Roland Grunow², Herbert Tomaso¹

Affiliations

¹ Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Institute of Bacterial Infections and Zoonoses, Jena, Germany.
² Centre for Biological Threats and Special Pathogens, Robert Koch Institute, Highly Pathogenic Microorganisms (ZBS 2), Berlin, Germany.

Abstract

A Bacillus anthracis vaccine strain (Sterne), used as an attenuated laboratory comparative strain, was sequenced and analyzed. A comparison to assemblies of B. anthracis strain Sterne (NZ_CP009541 and NZ_CP009540) was performed. The lack of the pX02 plasmid and pX01 in approximately five copies was confirmed.