Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the etiologic agent of tuberculosis (TB), which claims over a million lives per year. Here, we report the complete genome sequence of a virulent barcoded M. tuberculosis Erdman strain that has been used extensively for non-human primate infection research studies, characterized using long- and short-read technologies.
Keywords: Illumina sequencing; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Oxford nanopore sequencing; genome analysis; virulence.