Draft Genome Sequence of Taylorella equigenitalis Strain ERC_G2224 Isolated from the Semen of a Lipizzaner Stallion in South Africa

Catherine E May; Martin L Schulman; Peter G Howell; Carina W Lourens; Johan Gouws; Christopher Joone; Mpho S Monyai; Misha le Grange; Oliver K I Bezuidt; Cindy K Harper; Alan J Guthrie

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01205-15

Draft Genome Sequence of Taylorella equigenitalis Strain ERC_G2224 Isolated from the Semen of a Lipizzaner Stallion in South Africa

Genome Announc. 2015 Oct 15;3(5):e01205-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01205-15.

Affiliations

¹ Section of Reproduction, Department of Production Animal Studies, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, Onderstepoort, South Africa.
² Equine Research Centre, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, Onderstepoort, South Africa.
³ Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, Onderstepoort, South Africa.
⁴ Centre for Microbial and Environmental Genomics, Department of Genetics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Pretoria, Hatfield, South Africa.
⁵ Veterinary Genetics Laboratory, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, Onderstepoort, South Africa.
⁶ Equine Research Centre, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, Onderstepoort, South Africa [email protected].

Abstract

Taylorella equigenitalis is the causative agent of contagious equine metritis (CEM), a sexually transmitted infection of horses. We report here the genome sequence of T. equigenitalis strain ERC_G2224, isolated in 2015 from a semen sample collected in 1996 from a Lipizzaner stallion in South Africa.