Draft Genome Sequences of Three Flavobacterium psychrophilum Strains Isolated from Coldwater Disease Outbreaks at Three Production Hatcheries

Regg Neiger; Milton Thomas; Seema Das; Michael Barnes; Brian Fletcher; Kevin Snekvik; Jim Thompson; Joy Scaria

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00035-16

Draft Genome Sequences of Three Flavobacterium psychrophilum Strains Isolated from Coldwater Disease Outbreaks at Three Production Hatcheries

Genome Announc. 2016 Mar 10;4(2):e00035-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00035-16.

Authors

Regg Neiger¹, Milton Thomas¹, Seema Das¹, Michael Barnes², Brian Fletcher², Kevin Snekvik³, Jim Thompson³, Joy Scaria⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, USA.
² Department of Game, Fish and Parks, Pierre, South Dakota, USA.
³ Washington Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory, Pullman, Washington, USA.
⁴ Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, USA [email protected].

Abstract

We report here the genome sequences of three Flavobacterium psychrophilum strains causing a bacterial coldwater disease (BCWD) outbreak, isolated from infected rainbow trout from hatcheries in Montana and South Dakota. The availability of these virulent outbreak-causing strain genome sequences will help further understand the pathogenesis of BCWD.