First Full Draft Genome Sequence of Plasmodium brasilianum

Eldin Talundzic; Shashidhar Ravishankar; Vishal Nayak; Dhruviben S Patel; Christian Olsen; Mili Sheth; Dhwani Batra; Vladimir Loparev; Fredrik O Vannberg; Venkatachalam Udhayakumar; John W Barnwell

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01566-16

First Full Draft Genome Sequence of Plasmodium brasilianum

Genome Announc. 2017 Feb 9;5(6):e01566-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01566-16.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Malaria Branch, Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA etalundzic@cdc.gov.
² Atlanta Research and Education Foundation, VAMC, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
³ School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
⁴ SRA International, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
⁵ Malaria Branch, Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
⁶ Torq Informatics, Mebane, North Carolina, USA.
⁷ Biotechnology Core Facility Branch, Division of Scientific Resources, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Abstract

Plasmodium malariae is a protozoan parasite that can cause human malaria. The simian parasite Plasmodium brasilianum infects New World monkeys from Latin America and is morphologically indistinguishable from P. malariae Here, we report the first full draft genome sequence for P. brasilianum.