Draft Genome Sequences of Two Sporothrix schenckii Clinical Isolates Associated with Human Sporotrichosis in Colombia

Oscar M Gomez; Laura C Alvarez; Jose F Muñoz; Elizabeth Misas; Juan E Gallo; Maria Del P Jimenez; Myrtha Arango; Juan G McEwen; Orville Hernandez; Oliver K Clay

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00495-18

Draft Genome Sequences of Two Sporothrix schenckii Clinical Isolates Associated with Human Sporotrichosis in Colombia

Genome Announc. 2018 Jun 14;6(24):e00495-18. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00495-18.

Authors

Oscar M Gomez^{1

2}, Laura C Alvarez^{2

3}, Jose F Muñoz^{1

4}, Elizabeth Misas^{1

2}, Juan E Gallo^{1

5}, Maria Del P Jimenez³, Myrtha Arango³, Juan G McEwen^{6

3}, Orville Hernandez^{1

7}, Oliver K Clay^{1

8}

Affiliations

¹ Cellular and Molecular Biology Unit, Corporación para Investigaciones Biológicas, Medellín, Colombia.
² Institute of Biology, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia.
³ School of Medicine, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia.
⁴ Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
⁵ GenomaCES, Universidad CES, Medellín, Colombia.
⁶ Cellular and Molecular Biology Unit, Corporación para Investigaciones Biológicas, Medellín, Colombia mcewen@une.net.co.
⁷ MICROBA Research Group, School of Microbiology, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia.
⁸ School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia.

Abstract

Sporothrix schenckii is a thermodimorphic fungal pathogen with a high genetic diversity. In this work, we present the assembly and similarity analysis of the whole-genome sequences of two clinical isolates from Colombia of S. schenckiisensu stricto.