Whole-Genome Sequence of Mycobacterium ulcerans CSURP7741, a French Guianan Clinical Isolate

Jamal Saad; Marine Combe; Nassim Hammoudi; Pierre Couppié; Romain Blaizot; Farah Jedir; Rodolphe Elie Gozlan; Michel Drancourt; Amar Bouam

doi:10.1128/MRA.00215-19

Whole-Genome Sequence of Mycobacterium ulcerans CSURP7741, a French Guianan Clinical Isolate

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 Jul 18;8(29):e00215-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00215-19.

Authors

Jamal Saad^#^{1

2}, Marine Combe^#³, Nassim Hammoudi^{1

2}, Pierre Couppié^{4

5}, Romain Blaizot⁵, Farah Jedir⁵, Rodolphe Elie Gozlan³, Michel Drancourt^{1

2}, Amar Bouam⁶

Affiliations

¹ IHU Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France.
² Aix-Marseille-University, IRD, MEPHI, IHU Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France.
³ ISEM UMR226, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, EPHE, Montpellier, France.
⁴ Equipe EA 3593, Ecosystèmes Amazoniens et Pathologie Tropicale, Université de la Guyane, Cayenne, French Guiana.
⁵ Service de Dermatologie, Cayenne Hospital, Cayenne, French Guiana.
⁶ Aix-Marseille-University, IRD, MEPHI, IHU Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France [email protected].

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

Combined Nanopore and Illumina whole-genome sequencing of a French Guianan Mycobacterium ulcerans (Buruli ulcer agent) clinical isolate yielded a 5.12-Mbp genome with a 65.5% GC content, 5,215 protein-coding genes, and 51 predicted RNA genes. This publicly available M. ulcerans whole-genome sequence from a strain isolated in South America is closely related to M. ulcerans subsp. liflandii.