Draft Genomes for Eight Burkholderia mallei Isolates from Turkey

H E Daligault; S L Johnson; K W Davenport; T D Minogue; K A Bishop-Lilly; S M Broomall; D C Bruce; S R Coyne; K G Frey; H S Gibbons; J Jaissle; G I Koroleva; J T Ladner; C-C Lo; C Munk; M J Wolcott; G F Palacios; C L Redden; C N Rosenzweig; M B Scholz; P S Chain

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01234-15

Draft Genomes for Eight Burkholderia mallei Isolates from Turkey

Genome Announc. 2016 Jan 7;4(1):e01234-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01234-15.

Authors

H E Daligault¹, S L Johnson², K W Davenport¹, T D Minogue³, K A Bishop-Lilly⁴, S M Broomall⁵, D C Bruce¹, S R Coyne³, K G Frey⁴, H S Gibbons⁵, J Jaissle³, G I Koroleva³, J T Ladner³, C-C Lo¹, C Munk¹, M J Wolcott³, G F Palacios³, C L Redden⁴, C N Rosenzweig⁵, M B Scholz⁶, P S Chain¹

Affiliations

¹ Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA.
² Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA [email protected].
³ United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Fort Detrick, Maryland, USA.
⁴ Naval Medical Research Center (NMRC), Frederick, Fort Detrick, Maryland, USA Henry M. Jackson Foundation, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
⁵ United States Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC), Aberdeen Proving Ground, Aberdeen, Maryland, USA.
⁶ Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA Michigan State University (MSU), East Lansing, Michigan, USA.

Abstract

Burkholderia mallei, the etiologic agent of glanders, is a Gram-negative, nonmotile, facultative intracellular pathogen. Although glanders has been eradicated from many parts of the world, the threat of B. mallei being used as a weapon is very real. Here we present draft genome assemblies of 8 Burkholderia mallei strains that were isolated in Turkey.

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