Complete Genome Sequences of Six Lactobacillus iners Strains Isolated from the Human Vagina

Michael T France; Lindsay Rutt; Shilpa Narina; Sarah Arbaugh; Elias McComb; Mike S Humphrys; Bing Ma; Matthew R Hayward; Elizabeth K Costello; David A Relman; Douglas S Kwon; Jacques Ravel

doi:10.1128/MRA.00234-20

Complete Genome Sequences of Six Lactobacillus iners Strains Isolated from the Human Vagina

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 May 14;9(20):e00234-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00234-20.

Authors

Michael T France¹, Lindsay Rutt^{1

2}, Shilpa Narina^{1

2}, Sarah Arbaugh^{1

2}, Elias McComb^{1

2}, Mike S Humphrys^{1

2}, Bing Ma^{1

2}, Matthew R Hayward³, Elizabeth K Costello^{4

5

6}, David A Relman^{4

5

6}, Douglas S Kwon^{3

7}, Jacques Ravel^{8

2}

Affiliations

¹ Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
² Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
³ Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
⁴ Division of Infectious Diseases & Geographic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA.
⁵ Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA.
⁶ Infectious Diseases Section, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California, USA.
⁷ Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁸ Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA jravel@som.umaryland.edu.

Abstract

Lactobacillus iners is a common member of the human vaginal microbiota, with a genome size smaller than that of other lactobacilli. Here, we report the complete genome sequences of six L. iners strains isolated from different vaginal swab specimens. Three strains were found to harbor ∼100-kbp plasmids, which were not known previously.

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