Draft Genome Sequence of Colistin-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Strain VB22595 Isolated from a Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection

Balaji Veeraraghavan; Shalini Anandan; Naveen Kumar Devanga Ragupathi; Saranya Vijayakumar; Dhiviya Prabaa Muthuirulandi Sethuvel; Indranil Biswas

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00835-16

Draft Genome Sequence of Colistin-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Strain VB22595 Isolated from a Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection

Genome Announc. 2016 Aug 11;4(4):e00835-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00835-16.

Authors

Balaji Veeraraghavan¹, Shalini Anandan¹, Naveen Kumar Devanga Ragupathi¹, Saranya Vijayakumar¹, Dhiviya Prabaa Muthuirulandi Sethuvel¹, Indranil Biswas²

Affiliations

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

Abstract

Acinetobacter baumannii is an important emerging pathogen that causes health care-associated infections. In this study, we determined the genome of a multidrug-resistant clinical strain, VB22595, isolated from a hospital in Southern India. The draft genome indicates that strain VB22595 encodes a genome of ~3.92 Mb in size and does not contain plasmid derived MCR-1 for colistin resistance.