Complete Genome Sequence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Reference Strain PAK

Amy K Cain; Laura M Nolan; Geraldine J Sullivan; Cynthia B Whitchurch; Alain Filloux; Julian Parkhill

doi:10.1128/MRA.00865-19

Complete Genome Sequence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Reference Strain PAK

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 Oct 10;8(41):e00865-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00865-19.

Authors

Amy K Cain^{1

2}, Laura M Nolan³, Geraldine J Sullivan², Cynthia B Whitchurch⁴, Alain Filloux⁵, Julian Parkhill^{1

6}

Affiliations

¹ Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
² Department of Molecular Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, Australia.
³ Imperial College London, MRC Centre for Molecular Bacteriology and Infection, South Kensington, London, United Kingdom.
⁴ The ithree institute, Faculty of Science, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, Australia.
⁵ Imperial College London, MRC Centre for Molecular Bacteriology and Infection, South Kensington, London, United Kingdom a.filloux@imperial.ac.uk.
⁶ Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Abstract

We report the complete genome of Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain PAK, a strain which has been instrumental in the study of a range of P. aeruginosa virulence and pathogenesis factors and has been used for over 50 years as a laboratory reference strain.

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