Whole-Genome Sequence of a Brucella melitensis Strain Isolated from Sheep in Saudi Arabia

Majed F Alghoribi; Kamal H Zidan; Abdulrahman A Alswaji; Ali N Alhafufi; Abdalla Ahmed; Hanan H Balkhy

doi:10.1128/MRA.01189-18

Whole-Genome Sequence of a Brucella melitensis Strain Isolated from Sheep in Saudi Arabia

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2018 Nov 29;7(21):e01189-18. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01189-18. eCollection 2018 Nov.

Authors

Majed F Alghoribi^{1

2}, Kamal H Zidan³, Abdulrahman A Alswaji¹, Ali N Alhafufi³, Abdalla Ahmed⁴, Hanan H Balkhy^{1

2

5}

Affiliations

¹ King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Infectious Diseases Research Department, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
² King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
³ Riyadh Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
⁴ Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia.
⁵ Infection Prevention and Control Department, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Abstract

The intracellular Gram-negative bacterium Brucella melitensis causes a zoonotic disease in humans originating from animals. Here, we report the whole-genome sequence (WGS) of Brucella melitensis strain KSA_BM_07, isolated from sheep in March 2017 in Huraymila, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.