Draft Genome Sequences of Seven Streptococcus agalactiae Strains Isolated from Camelus dromedarius at the Horn of Africa

Julian Rothen; Tobias Schindler; Joël F Pothier; Mario Younan; Ulrich Certa; Claudia Daubenberger; Valentin Pflüger; Joerg Jores

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00525-17

Draft Genome Sequences of Seven Streptococcus agalactiae Strains Isolated from Camelus dromedarius at the Horn of Africa

Genome Announc. 2017 Jul 13;5(28):e00525-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00525-17.

Authors

Julian Rothen^{1

2}, Tobias Schindler^{3

2}, Joël F Pothier⁴, Mario Younan⁵, Ulrich Certa⁶, Claudia Daubenberger^{3

2}, Valentin Pflüger⁷, Joerg Jores^{8

9}

Affiliations

¹ Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland julian.rothen@unibas.ch.
² University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
³ Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland.
⁴ Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Research Group, Institute for Natural Resource Sciences, Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Wädenswil, Switzerland.
⁵ Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Gaziantep, Turkey.
⁶ Roche Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Translational Technologies and Bioinformatics, Roche Innovation Center Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
⁷ Mabritec AG, Riehen, Switzerland.
⁸ International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya.
⁹ Vetsuisse-Fakultät Universität Bern, Institut für Veterinär-Bakteriologie, Bern, Switzerland.

Abstract

We present draft whole-genome sequences of seven Streptococcus agalactiae strains isolated from Camelus dromedarius in Kenya and Somalia. These data are an extension to the group B Streptococcus (GBS) pangenome and might provide more insight into the underlying mechanisms of pathogenicity and antibiotic resistance of camel GBS.