Whole-Genome Assemblies of 16 Burkholderia pseudomallei Isolates from Rivers in Laos

Nicole Liechti; Rosalie E Zimmermann; Jakob Zopfi; Matthew T Robinson; Alain Pierret; Olivier Ribolzi; Sayaphet Rattanavong; Viengmon Davong; Paul N Newton; Matthias Wittwer; David A B Dance

doi:10.1128/MRA.01226-20

Whole-Genome Assemblies of 16 Burkholderia pseudomallei Isolates from Rivers in Laos

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2021 Jan 28;10(4):e01226-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01226-20.

Authors

Nicole Liechti^#^{1

2}, Rosalie E Zimmermann^#^{3

4

5}, Jakob Zopfi⁴, Matthew T Robinson^{6

7}, Alain Pierret⁸, Olivier Ribolzi⁹, Sayaphet Rattanavong⁶, Viengmon Davong⁶, Paul N Newton^{6

7}, Matthias Wittwer¹⁰, David A B Dance^{6

7

11}

Affiliations

¹ Spiez Laboratory, Swiss Federal Office for Civil Protection, Spiez, Switzerland nicole.liechti@babs.admin.ch r.e.zimmermann@amsterdamumc.nl.
² Interfaculty Bioinformatics Unit, Department of Biology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
³ Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust Research Unit, Microbiology Laboratory, Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane, Laos nicole.liechti@babs.admin.ch r.e.zimmermann@amsterdamumc.nl.
⁴ Department of Environmental Sciences, Biogeochemistry, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
⁵ Department of Medical Microbiology, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
⁶ Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust Research Unit, Microbiology Laboratory, Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane, Laos.
⁷ Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
⁸ iEES-Paris (IRD, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, CNRS, INRA, UPEC, c/o Department of Agricultural Land Management (DALaM), Vientiane, Laos.
⁹ Géosciences Environnement Toulouse (GET), Université de Toulouse, IRD, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse, France.
¹⁰ Spiez Laboratory, Swiss Federal Office for Civil Protection, Spiez, Switzerland.
¹¹ Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

We report 16 Burkholderia pseudomallei genomes, including 5 new multilocus sequence types, isolated from rivers in Laos. The environmental bacterium B. pseudomallei causes melioidosis, a serious infectious disease in tropical and subtropical regions. The isolates are geographically clustered in one clade from around Vientiane, Laos, and one clade from further south.