Whole-Genome Assembly of Yersinia pestis 231, the Russian Reference Strain for Testing Plague Vaccine Protection

Angelina A Kislichkina; Ekaterina A Krasil'nikova; Mikhail E Platonov; Yury P Skryabin; Angelika A Sizova; Viktor I Solomentsev; Tat'yana V Gapel'chenkova; Svetlana V Dentovskaya; Alexandr G Bogun; Andrey P Anisimov

doi:10.1128/MRA.01373-20

Whole-Genome Assembly of Yersinia pestis 231, the Russian Reference Strain for Testing Plague Vaccine Protection

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2021 Feb 4;10(5):e01373-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01373-20.

Affiliations

¹ State Research Center for Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Obolensk, Russia angelinakislichkina@yandex.ru anisimov@obolensk.org.
² State Research Center for Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Obolensk, Russia.

Abstract

We report the whole-genome sequence of Yersinia pestis subsp. pestis bv. Antiqua strain 231 belonging to the 0.ANT3 phylogroup, the reference strain for testing plague vaccine protection in Russia. Genome sequencing was completed using the Oxford Nanopore MinION and Illumina platforms.