Identification and Characterization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing Genotype Strain SBH163, Isolated in Sabah, Malaysia

Jaeyres Jani; Siti Fatimah Abu Bakar; Zainal Arifin Mustapha; Chin Kai Ling; Roddy Teo; Kamruddin Ahmed

doi:10.1128/MRA.01322-19

Identification and Characterization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing Genotype Strain SBH163, Isolated in Sabah, Malaysia

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 Jan 9;9(2):e01322-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01322-19.

Authors

Jaeyres Jani¹, Siti Fatimah Abu Bakar^{1

2}, Zainal Arifin Mustapha³, Chin Kai Ling⁴, Roddy Teo⁵, Kamruddin Ahmed^{6

4}

Affiliations

¹ Borneo Medical and Health Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.
² Department of Information Systems, School of Computing, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Johor, Malaysia.
³ Department of Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.
⁴ Department of Pathobiology and Medical Diagnostics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.
⁵ Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control Unit, Sabah State Health Department, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.
⁶ Borneo Medical and Health Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia ahmed@ums.edu.my.

Abstract

This is a report on the whole-genome sequence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain SBH163, which was isolated from a patient in the Malaysian Borneo state of Sabah. This report provides insight into the molecular characteristics of an M. tuberculosis Beijing genotype strain related to strains from Russia and South Africa.