Draft Genome Sequence of a Clostridioides difficile Sequence Type 97 Strain Belonging to Hypervirulent Clade 2

Yukino Usui; Yoko Nukui; Ryuji Koike; Shuji Tohda; Ryoichi Saito

doi:10.1128/MRA.00245-20

Draft Genome Sequence of a Clostridioides difficile Sequence Type 97 Strain Belonging to Hypervirulent Clade 2

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 Apr 2;9(14):e00245-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00245-20.

Authors

Yukino Usui¹, Yoko Nukui², Ryuji Koike², Shuji Tohda³, Ryoichi Saito^{4

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Molecular Microbiology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan.
² Department of Infection Control and Prevention, Tokyo Medical and Dental University Medical Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
³ Department of Clinical Laboratory, Tokyo Medical and Dental University Medical Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
⁴ Department of Molecular Microbiology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan r-saito.mi@tmd.ac.jp.

Abstract

Clostridioides difficile hypervirulent clade 2 lineages are the major lineages responsible for the outbreaks in North America and Europe. However, the genome sequences of Japanese isolates are scarcely available. Herein, we report the draft genome sequence of C. difficile strain TMD0138 sequence type 97 (ST97), belonging to hypervirulent clade 2, isolated in Japan.