Complete Genome Sequence of Acinetobacter baumannii Strain B8300, Which Displays High Twitching Motility

Saranya Vijaykumar; Veeraraghavan Balaji; Indranil Biswas

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00956-15

Complete Genome Sequence of Acinetobacter baumannii Strain B8300, Which Displays High Twitching Motility

Genome Announc. 2015 Aug 20;3(4):e00956-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00956-15.

Authors

Saranya Vijaykumar¹, Veeraraghavan Balaji¹, Indranil Biswas²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Clinical Microbiology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India.
² Department of Microbiology, Molecular Genetics and Immunology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, USA ibiswas@kumc.edu.

Abstract

Acinetobacter baumannii has emerged as an important nosocomial pathogen causing health care-associated infections. In this study, we determined the genome of a twitching-positive clinical strain, B8300, isolated from a hospital in southern India. De novo assembly of PacBio long-read sequencing data generated the B8300 genome that consists of a chromosome of 3.82 Mbp and a plasmid of 25.15 kbp.