Draft Genome Sequence of Mycobacterium simiae, a Potential Pathogen Isolated from the Normal Human Oral Cavity

Varsha Chauhan; Kamal Shrivastava; Sakshi Anand; Chanchal Kumar; Anupriya Singh; Mandira Varma-Basil

doi:10.1128/MRA.01185-20

Draft Genome Sequence of Mycobacterium simiae, a Potential Pathogen Isolated from the Normal Human Oral Cavity

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 Nov 12;9(46):e01185-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01185-20.

Authors

Varsha Chauhan¹, Kamal Shrivastava¹, Sakshi Anand¹, Chanchal Kumar¹, Anupriya Singh¹, Mandira Varma-Basil²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Microbiology, Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute, University of Delhi, Delhi, India.
² Department of Microbiology, Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute, University of Delhi, Delhi, India mandirav@rediffmail.com.

Abstract

We report the draft genome sequence of Mycobacterium simiae, a slowly growing nontuberculous mycobacterium (NTM) isolated from a mouthwash sample of a healthy person. This genome of 6,603,693 bp exhibited a 66.13% GC content and 6,391 genes with 6,257 coding sequences, 3 rRNAs, and 78 tRNAs.