Draft Genome Sequence of Mycobacterium Asiaticum Strain DSM 44297

Overview

Journal Genome Announc

Publisher American Society for Microbiology

Date 2014 Apr 19

PMID 24744338

Authors

Olivier Croce

Catherine Robert

Didier Raoult

Michel Drancourt

Affiliations

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Abstract

We report the draft genome sequence of Mycobacterium asiaticum strain DSM 44297, a tropical mycobacterium seldom responsible for human infection. The genome of M. asiaticum has a size of 5,935,986 bp, with a 66.03% G+C content, encoding 5,591 proteins and 81 RNAs.

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