Draft Genome Sequence of Francisella noatunensis subsp. orientalis STIR-GUS-F2f7, a Highly Virulent Strain Recovered from Diseased Red Nile Tilapia Farmed in Europe

José Gustavo Ramírez-Paredes; Pär Larsson; Stefanie Wehner; Michaël Bekaert; Caroline Öhrman; Matthijs Metselaar; Kimberly Dawn Thompson; Randolph Harvey Richards; David James Penman; Alexandra Adams

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01555-16

Draft Genome Sequence of Francisella noatunensis subsp. orientalis STIR-GUS-F2f7, a Highly Virulent Strain Recovered from Diseased Red Nile Tilapia Farmed in Europe

Genome Announc. 2017 Mar 16;5(11):e01555-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01555-16.

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Aquaculture, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, United Kingdom [email protected].
² Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), CBRN Defence and Security, Umeå, Sweden.
³ Institute of Aquaculture, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, United Kingdom.
⁴ The Fish Vet Group, Inverness, United Kingdom.
⁵ Aquaculture Research Group, Moredun Research Institute, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

Abstract

A highly virulent strain of Francisella noatunensis subsp. orientalis, STIR-GUS-F2f7, was isolated from moribund red Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) farmed in Europe. In this communication, the complete genome sequencing of this bacterium is reported.