Complete Genome Sequence of Bifidobacterium kashiwanohense JCM 15439T, Isolated from Feces from a Healthy Japanese Infant

Hidetoshi Morita; Hidehiro Toh; Akiyo Nakano; Kenshiro Oshima; Misako Takagi; Wataru Suda; Soichi Tanabe; Masahira Hattori

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00255-15

Complete Genome Sequence of Bifidobacterium kashiwanohense JCM 15439T, Isolated from Feces from a Healthy Japanese Infant

Genome Announc. 2015 Apr 16;3(2):e00255-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00255-15.

Authors

Hidetoshi Morita¹, Hidehiro Toh², Akiyo Nakano³, Kenshiro Oshima⁴, Misako Takagi⁵, Wataru Suda⁶, Soichi Tanabe⁷, Masahira Hattori⁴

Affiliations

¹ School of Veterinary Medicine, Azabu University, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan [email protected].
² Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
³ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
⁴ Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan.
⁵ Crossfield-Bio, Inc., Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
⁶ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, Keio University, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
⁷ Graduate School of Biosphere Science, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan.

Abstract

We isolated Bifidobacterium kashiwanohense JCM 15439 from the feces of a healthy Japanese infant and proposed it as the type strain of a novel species within the genus Bifidobacterium. Here, we report the complete genome sequence of this organism.