Complete Genome Sequence of Bifidobacterium scardovii Strain JCM 12489T, Isolated from Human Blood

Hidehiro Toh; Kenshiro Oshima; Akiyo Nakano; Naoko Yamashita; Erica Iioka; Rina Kurokawa; Hidetoshi Morita; Masahira Hattori

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00285-15

Complete Genome Sequence of Bifidobacterium scardovii Strain JCM 12489T, Isolated from Human Blood

Genome Announc. 2015 Apr 9;3(2):e00285-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00285-15.

Authors

Hidehiro Toh¹, Kenshiro Oshima², Akiyo Nakano³, Naoko Yamashita², Erica Iioka², Rina Kurokawa², Hidetoshi Morita⁴, Masahira Hattori²

Affiliations

¹ Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
² Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan.
³ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
⁴ School of Veterinary Medicine, Azabu University, Sagamihara, Japan [email protected].

Abstract

Bifidobacterium scardovii strain JCM 12489(T) was isolated from human blood and has the largest bifidobacterial genome reported to date. Here, we report the complete genome sequence of this organism. This paper is the first report demonstrating the fully sequenced and completely annotated genome of a B. scardovii strain.