Genome Sequence of a Toxin-Positive Clostridium difficile Strain Isolated from Murine Feces

Lucie Etienne-Mesmin; Benoit Chassaing; Oluwaseyi Adekunle; Lisa M Mattei; Adrianne N Edwards; Shonna M McBride; Frederic D Bushman; Andrew T Gewirtz

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00088-17

Genome Sequence of a Toxin-Positive Clostridium difficile Strain Isolated from Murine Feces

Genome Announc. 2017 Apr 6;5(14):e00088-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00088-17.

Authors

Lucie Etienne-Mesmin¹, Benoit Chassaing², Oluwaseyi Adekunle³, Lisa M Mattei⁴, Adrianne N Edwards⁵, Shonna M McBride⁵, Frederic D Bushman⁶, Andrew T Gewirtz²

Affiliations

¹ Center for Inflammation Immunity and Infection, Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA [email protected].
² Center for Inflammation Immunity and Infection, Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
³ Immunology and Molecular Pathogenesis Graduate Program, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
⁴ PennCHOP Microbiome, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
⁵ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine, Emory Antibiotic Resistance Center, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
⁶ Department of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

Abstract

Herein, we report the genome sequence of a Clostridium difficile strain isolated from the feces of antibiotic-treated C57BL/6 mice. We have named this strain, which differs considerably from those of the previously sequenced C. difficile strains, LEM1.

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