First Draft Genome Sequence of Leishmania (Viannia) lainsoni Strain 216-34, Isolated from a Peruvian Clinical Case

Wuling Lin; Dhwani Batra; Vidhya Narayanan; Lori A Rowe; Mili Sheth; Yueli Zheng; Phalasy Juieng; Vladimir Loparev; Marcos de Almeida

doi:10.1128/MRA.01524-18

First Draft Genome Sequence of Leishmania (Viannia) lainsoni Strain 216-34, Isolated from a Peruvian Clinical Case

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 Feb 7;8(6):e01524-18. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01524-18. eCollection 2019 Feb.

Authors

Wuling Lin^{1

2}, Dhwani Batra³, Vidhya Narayanan^{1

2}, Lori A Rowe³, Mili Sheth³, Yueli Zheng^{1

4}, Phalasy Juieng³, Vladimir Loparev³, Marcos de Almeida¹

Affiliations

¹ Reference Diagnostic Laboratory, Parasitic Diseases Branch/Department of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
² IHRC, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
³ Biotechnology Core Facility, DSR/NCEZID, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
⁴ Eagle Global Scientific, San Antonio, Texas, USA.

Abstract

We present here the first draft genome sequence of Leishmania (Viannia) lainsoni strain 216-34, sequenced using PacBio and MiSeq platforms. PacBio contigs were generated from de novo assemblies using CANU version 1.6 and polished using Illumina reads.