Complete Genome Sequence of the Hypervirulent Bacterium Clostridium difficile Strain G46, Ribotype 027

Tom Gaulton; Raju Misra; Graham Rose; Primo Baybayan; Richard Hall; Jane Freeman; Jane Turton; Steve Picton; Jonas Korlach; Saheer Gharbia; Haroun Shah

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00073-15

Complete Genome Sequence of the Hypervirulent Bacterium Clostridium difficile Strain G46, Ribotype 027

Genome Announc. 2015 Mar 26;3(2):e00073-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00073-15.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Public Health England, London, United Kingdom.
² Public Health England, London, United Kingdom [email protected].
³ Pacific Biosciences, Menlo Park, California, USA.
⁴ Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

Abstract

Clostridium difficile is one of the leading causes of antibiotic-associated diarrhea in health care facilities worldwide. Here, we report the genome sequence of C. difficile strain G46, ribotype 027, isolated from an outbreak in Glamorgan, Wales, in 2006.