Genome Sequence of Bacillus anthracis Isolated from an Anthrax Burial Site in Pollino National Park, Basilicata Region (Southern Italy)

Antonio Fasanella; Peter Braun; Gregor Grass; Matthias Hanczaruk; Angela Aceti; Luigina Serrecchia; Giuseppe Leonzio; Francesco Tolve; Enrico Georgi; Markus Antwerpen

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00141-15

Genome Sequence of Bacillus anthracis Isolated from an Anthrax Burial Site in Pollino National Park, Basilicata Region (Southern Italy)

Genome Announc. 2015 Mar 19;3(2):e00141-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00141-15.

Affiliations

¹ Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale of Puglia and Basilicata, Anthrax Reference Institute of Italy, Foggia, Italy.
² Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany.
³ Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany markusantwerpen@bundeswehr.org.

Abstract

A Bacillus anthracis strain was isolated from a burial-site in Pollino National Park where a bovine died of anthrax and was buried in 2004. We report the first genome sequence of B. anthracis isolated in the Basilicata region (southern Italy), which is the highest risk area of anthrax infection in Italy.