Complete Genome Sequences of Evolutionary Clade C-III Strains of Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile Isolated from the Environment in Western Australia

Nirajmohan Shivaperumal; Natasza M R Hain-Saunders; Barbara J Chang; Thomas V Riley; Daniel R Knight

doi:10.1128/mra.00239-23

Complete Genome Sequences of Evolutionary Clade C-III Strains of Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile Isolated from the Environment in Western Australia

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2023 May 17;12(5):e0023923. doi: 10.1128/mra.00239-23. Epub 2023 Apr 26.

Authors

Nirajmohan Shivaperumal¹, Natasza M R Hain-Saunders², Barbara J Chang¹, Thomas V Riley^{1

2

3

4}, Daniel R Knight^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia.
² Harry Butler Institute, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia.
³ Department of Microbiology, PathWest Laboratory Medicine WA, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia.
⁴ School of Medical and Health Sciences, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Western Australia, Australia.

Abstract

Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile in the environment is thought to contribute to C. difficile infection in community settings. Here, we provide complete genome assemblies for two esculin hydrolysis-negative strains of C. difficile that were isolated from soils in Western Australia; the strains produce white colonies on chromogenic media and belong to evolutionarily divergent clade C-III.