Genome Sequence of a Clostridium neonatale Strain Isolated in a Canadian Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Samia Benamar; Nadim Cassir; Bernard La Scola

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01431-15

Genome Sequence of a Clostridium neonatale Strain Isolated in a Canadian Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Genome Announc. 2016 Jan 21;4(1):e01431-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01431-15.

Authors

Samia Benamar¹, Nadim Cassir¹, Bernard La Scola²

Affiliations

¹ Aix Marseille Universite, Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Méditerranee Infection, Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes (URMITE), UM63, CNRS, INSERM, IRD 198 7278 1095, Faculté de Médecine de Marseille, Marseille, France.
² Aix Marseille Universite, Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Méditerranee Infection, Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes (URMITE), UM63, CNRS, INSERM, IRD 198 7278 1095, Faculté de Médecine de Marseille, Marseille, France [email protected].

Abstract

Clostridium neonatale is a Gram-positive endospore-forming obligate anaerobe first isolated from the feces of premature neonates during an intensive care unit outbreak of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) in a Canadian neonatal intensive care unit. Here, we announce the genome draft sequence of this bacterium. It is composed of 4,710,818 bp and contains 4,169 protein-coding genes and 80 RNA genes, including 11 rRNA genes.