Whole-Genome Sequencing of a Haarlem Extensively Drug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Clinical Isolate from Medellín, Colombia

N Alvarez; D Haft; U A Hurtado; J Robledo; F Rouzaud

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00566-16

Whole-Genome Sequencing of a Haarlem Extensively Drug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Clinical Isolate from Medellín, Colombia

Genome Announc. 2016 Jun 16;4(3):e00566-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00566-16.

Authors

N Alvarez¹, D Haft², U A Hurtado³, J Robledo⁴, F Rouzaud⁵

Affiliations

¹ Corporación para Investigaciones Biológicas-CIB, Medellín, Colombia Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana-UPB, Medellín, Colombia nalvarez@cib.org.co.
² J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, USA.
³ Corporación para Investigaciones Biológicas-CIB, Medellín, Colombia.
⁴ Corporación para Investigaciones Biológicas-CIB, Medellín, Colombia Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana-UPB, Medellín, Colombia.
⁵ Corporación para Investigaciones Biológicas-CIB, Medellín, Colombia Equal Opportunity Life Sciences-EQUOLS, Rockville, Maryland, USA.

Abstract

Colombia is one of the 105 countries that has reported at least one case of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB). The Mycobacterium tuberculosis Haarlem genotype is ubiquitous worldwide. Here, we report the high-quality draft genome sequence of a Colombian Haarlem XDR-TB clinical isolate composed of 4,329,127 bp with 4,386 genes.