Complete Genome Sequence of Bartonella bacilliformis Strain KC584 (ATCC 35686)

Alexander A Dichter; Tilman G Schultze; Sabrina A Becker; Pablo Tsukayama; Volkhard A J Kempf

doi:10.1128/MRA.01377-19

Complete Genome Sequence of Bartonella bacilliformis Strain KC584 (ATCC 35686)

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 Jan 2;9(1):e01377-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01377-19.

Authors

Alexander A Dichter^#¹, Tilman G Schultze^#¹, Sabrina A Becker¹, Pablo Tsukayama², Volkhard A J Kempf³

Affiliations

¹ Institute for Medical Microbiology and Infection Control, University Hospital, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt, Germany.
² Facultad de Ciencias y Filosofía/Instituto de Medicina Tropical "Alexander von Humboldt", Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru.
³ Institute for Medical Microbiology and Infection Control, University Hospital, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt, Germany volkhard.kempf@kgu.de.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

Bartonella bacilliformis is the biological agent of Carrion's disease, a vector-borne, life-threatening human bartonellosis restricted to South America. Here, we report the complete genome sequence of B. bacilliformis KC584 (ATCC 35686). Although it is commonly used as a reference strain, to date, its complete genome has not been published.