Whole-Genome Sequence of a Beijing Extensively Drug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Clinical Isolate from Buenaventura, Colombia

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

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01549-15

Whole-Genome Sequence of a Beijing Extensively Drug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Clinical Isolate from Buenaventura, Colombia

Genome Announc. 2016 Jan 14;4(1):e01549-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01549-15.

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

Extensively drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis (XDR-TB) has been reported to the WHO by 100 countries, including Colombia. An estimated 9.0% of people with multidrug-resistant TB have XDR-TB. We report the genome sequence of a Beijing XDR-TB clinical isolate from Buenaventura, Colombia. The genome sequence is composed of 4,298,162 bp with 4,359 genes.