Draft Genome Sequence of a Rare Israeli Clinical Isolate of Burkholderia pseudomallei

Ofir Israeli; Inbar Cohen-Gihon; Tal Brosh-Nissimov; Anat Zvi; Adi Beth-Din; Ohad Shifman; Ma'ayan Israeli; Uri Elia; Shirley Lazar; Erez Bar-Haim; Ofer Cohen; Theodor Chitlaru

doi:10.1128/MRA.00281-19

Draft Genome Sequence of a Rare Israeli Clinical Isolate of Burkholderia pseudomallei

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 May 9;8(19):e00281-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00281-19.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Israel Institute for Biological Research, Ness Ziona, Israel.
² Infectious Diseases Unit, Assuta Ashdod University Hospital, Ashdod, Israel.
³ Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University in the Negev, Beersheba, Israel.
⁴ Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Israel Institute for Biological Research, Ness Ziona, Israel theodorc@iibr.gov.il.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

We report here the draft genome sequence of Burkholderia pseudomallei MAA2018. This highly virulent strain was isolated in 2018 from the first melioidosis case in Israel associated with recreational travel to Goa, India.