Draft Genome Sequences of Potentially Pathogenic Clostridium perfringens Strains from Environmental Surface Water in the North West Province of South Africa

Johannes Cornelius Jacobus Fourie; Tomasz J Sanko; Cornelius Carlos Bezuidenhout; Charlotte Mienie; Rasheed Adegbola Adeleke

doi:10.1128/MRA.00407-19

Draft Genome Sequences of Potentially Pathogenic Clostridium perfringens Strains from Environmental Surface Water in the North West Province of South Africa

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 Aug 8;8(32):e00407-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00407-19.

Authors

Johannes Cornelius Jacobus Fourie^{1

2}, Tomasz J Sanko¹, Cornelius Carlos Bezuidenhout³, Charlotte Mienie¹, Rasheed Adegbola Adeleke^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa.
² Agricultural Research Council, Institute for Soil, Climate and Water, Pretoria, South Africa.
³ Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa Carlos.Bezuidenhout@nwu.ac.za.

Abstract

Surface water systems in South Africa are experiencing a major decline in quality due to various anthropogenic factors. This poses a possible health risk for humans. Here, we present the draft genome sequences of three Clostridium perfringens isolates obtained from a fecally polluted river system in the North West province of South Africa.