Draft Genome Sequences of Three Novel Clostridium Isolates from Northern Iraq

Srwa R J Rashid; Martha R J Clokie; Andrew D Millard

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00033-16

Draft Genome Sequences of Three Novel Clostridium Isolates from Northern Iraq

Genome Announc. 2016 Feb 25;4(1):e00033-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00033-16.

Authors

Srwa R J Rashid¹, Martha R J Clokie¹, Andrew D Millard²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Leicester, Leicester, Leicestershire, United Kingdom.
² Microbiology and Infection Unit, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Warwick, United Kingdom a.d.millard@warwick.ac.uk.

Abstract

Three Clostridium sp. strains were isolated from soil and sediment collected from the Kurdistan region of Iraq. All three isolates were found to harbor putative prophages, with a CRISPR-Cas system found in strains C105KSO13 and C105KSO14.

Grant support

MR/L015080/1/MRC_/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom