Genome Sequences of Four Strains of Mycobacterium avium subsp. hominissuis, Isolated from Swine and Humans, Differing in Virulence in a Murine Intranasal Infection Model

N Bruffaerts; C Vluggen; L Duytschaever; V Mathys; C Saegerman; O Chapeira; K Huygen

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00533-16

Genome Sequences of Four Strains of Mycobacterium avium subsp. hominissuis, Isolated from Swine and Humans, Differing in Virulence in a Murine Intranasal Infection Model

Genome Announc. 2016 Jun 16;4(3):e00533-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00533-16.

Authors

N Bruffaerts¹, C Vluggen², L Duytschaever³, V Mathys², C Saegerman⁴, O Chapeira⁵, K Huygen⁶

Affiliations

¹ Service "Immunology," Operational Direction Communicable and Infectious Diseases, Scientific Institute of Public Health (WIV-ISP), Brussels, Belgium.
² Service "Bacterial Diseases," Operational Direction Communicable and Infectious Diseases, Scientific Institute of Public Health (WIV-ISP), Brussels, Belgium.
³ Unit "Bacterial Zoonoses of Livestock," Operational Direction Bacterial Diseases, Veterinary and Agrochemical Research Centre (CODA-CERVA), Brussels, Belgium.
⁴ Research Unit in Epidemiology and Risk Analysis Applied to Veterinary Sciences (UREAR-ULg), Fundamental and Applied Research for Animal and Health (FARAH), Liège, Belgium.
⁵ Service Bioinformatique, Genoscreen, Lille, France.
⁶ Service "Immunology," Operational Direction Communicable and Infectious Diseases, Scientific Institute of Public Health (WIV-ISP), Brussels, Belgium kris.huygen@wiv-isp.be.

Abstract

This paper announces the genome sequences of four strains of Mycobacterium avium subsp. hominissuis, isolated from cases of lymphadenopathy in swine and humans, differing in virulence in a murine intranasal infection model.