Draft Genome Sequence of Mycobacterium colombiense

Amar Bouam; Catherine Robert; Anthony Levasseur; Michel Drancourt

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00119-17

Draft Genome Sequence of Mycobacterium colombiense

Genome Announc. 2017 Apr 6;5(14):e00119-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00119-17.

Authors

Amar Bouam¹, Catherine Robert¹, Anthony Levasseur¹, Michel Drancourt²

Affiliations

¹ Aix Marseille Univiversité, CNRS, IRD, INSERM, AP-HM, URMITE, IHU - Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France.
² Aix Marseille Univiversité, CNRS, IRD, INSERM, AP-HM, URMITE, IHU - Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France [email protected].

Abstract

Mycobacterium colombiense is a rapidly growing mycobacterium initially isolated from the blood of an HIV-positive patient in Colombia. Its 5,854,893-bp draft genome exhibits a G+C content of 67.64%, 5,233 protein-coding genes, and 54 predicted RNA genes.