Whole-Genome Sequences of Staphylococcus aureus Isolates from Cystic Fibrosis Lung Infections

Eryn E Bernardy; Robert A Petit 3rd; Abraham G Moller; Jennifer A Blumenthal; Alexander J McAdam; Gregory P Priebe; Aroon T Chande; Lavanya Rishishwar; I King Jordan; Timothy D Read; Joanna B Goldberg

doi:10.1128/MRA.01564-18

Whole-Genome Sequences of Staphylococcus aureus Isolates from Cystic Fibrosis Lung Infections

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 Jan 17;8(3):e01564-18. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01564-18. eCollection 2019 Jan.

Authors

Eryn E Bernardy^#^{1

2}, Robert A Petit 3rd^#³, Abraham G Moller³, Jennifer A Blumenthal^{4

5

6}, Alexander J McAdam^{7

8}, Gregory P Priebe^{4

5

6}, Aroon T Chande^{9

10

11}, Lavanya Rishishwar^{9

10

11}, I King Jordan^{9

10

11}, Timothy D Read³, Joanna B Goldberg^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pulmonology, Allergy/Immunology, Cystic Fibrosis and Sleep, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
² Emory-Children's Center for Cystic Fibrosis Research, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
³ Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
⁴ Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁵ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁶ Departments of Anaesthesia and Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁷ Department of Laboratory Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁸ Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁹ School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
¹⁰ IHRC-Georgia Tech Applied Bioinformatics Laboratory, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
¹¹ PanAmerican Bioinformatics Institute, Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

Staphylococcus aureus is an early colonizer in the lungs of individuals with cystic fibrosis (CF), but surprisingly, only a limited number of genomes from CF-associated S. aureus isolates have been sequenced. Here, we present the whole-genome sequences of 65 S. aureus isolates obtained from 50 individuals with CF.

Grants and funding

K12 GM000680/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States