Genome Sequences of the First WHO Repository of Platelet Transfusion-Relevant Bacterial Reference Strains

Alexander Mellmann; Eva Spindler-Raffel; Stefan Bletz; Marcel Prax; Isabelle Bekeredjian-Ding

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00001-17

Genome Sequences of the First WHO Repository of Platelet Transfusion-Relevant Bacterial Reference Strains

Genome Announc. 2017 Jul 20;5(29):e00001-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00001-17.

Authors

Alexander Mellmann¹, Eva Spindler-Raffel², Stefan Bletz³, Marcel Prax², Isabelle Bekeredjian-Ding²

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Hygiene, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany mellmann@uni-muenster.de.
² Paul-Ehrlich-Institute, Federal Institute for Vaccines and Biomedicines, Microbial Safety Section, Langen, Germany.
³ Institute of Hygiene, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany.

Abstract

To develop novel techniques for improving blood safety, dedicated bacterial strains, which are able to persist and to proliferate in blood platelet concentrates, are needed. Here, we present draft genome sequences of the four bacterial strains approved for the first WHO repository of platelet transfusion-relevant bacterial reference strains.