Complete Genome Sequence of Chlamydia avium PV 4360/2, Isolated from a Feral Pigeon in Italy

Anna Maria Floriano; Sara Rigamonti; Francesco Comandatore; Erika Scaltriti; David Longbottom; Morag Livingstone; Karine Laroucau; Alessandra Gaffuri; Stefano Pongolini; Simone Magnino; Nadia Vicari

doi:10.1128/MRA.01509-19

Complete Genome Sequence of Chlamydia avium PV 4360/2, Isolated from a Feral Pigeon in Italy

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 Apr 16;9(16):e01509-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01509-19.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biology and Biotechnology Lazzaro Spallanzani, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
² National Reference Laboratory for Animal Chlamydioses, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell'Emilia Romagna (IZSLER), Pavia, Italy.
³ Sky Net UNIMI Platform-Pediatric Clinical Research Center Romeo ed Enrica Invernizzi, Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche e Cliniche Luigi Sacco, Università di Milano, Milan, Italy.
⁴ Risk Analysis and Genomic Epidemiology Unit, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell'Emilia Romagna (IZSLER), Parma, Italy.
⁵ Moredun Research Institute, Pentlands Science Park, Bush Loan, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
⁶ Bacterial Zoonoses Unit, French Agency for Food, Environmental & Occupational Health Safety (Anses), Maisons-Alfort, France.
⁷ Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell'Emilia Romagna (IZSLER), Bergamo, Italy.
⁸ National Reference Laboratory for Animal Chlamydioses, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell'Emilia Romagna (IZSLER), Pavia, Italy nadia.vicari@izsler.it.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

We report here the whole-genome sequence of a Chlamydia avium isolate recovered from a feral pigeon in 1999 in Italy. Only one complete genome of a C. avium strain has been published so far. Future comparative analyses could provide valuable insights on the genomic evolution of the pathogen.