Toward a Complete North American Borrelia miyamotoi Genome

Luke C Kingry; Adam Replogle; Dhwani Batra; Lori A Rowe; Christopher Sexton; Marc Dolan; Neeta Connally; Jeannine M Petersen; Martin E Schriefer

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01557-16

Toward a Complete North American Borrelia miyamotoi Genome

Genome Announc. 2017 Feb 2;5(5):e01557-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01557-16.

Authors

Luke C Kingry¹, Adam Replogle¹, Dhwani Batra², Lori A Rowe², Christopher Sexton¹, Marc Dolan¹, Neeta Connally³, Jeannine M Petersen¹, Martin E Schriefer⁴

Affiliations

¹ Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, Bacterial Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA.
² Division of Scientific Resources, Biotechnology Core Facility Branch, Centers for Disease Prevention and Control, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
³ Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, Connecticut, USA.
⁴ Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, Bacterial Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA mms7@cdc.gov.

Abstract

Borrelia miyamotoi, of the relapsing-fever spirochete group, is an emerging tick-borne pathogen causing human illness in the northern hemisphere. Here, we present the chromosome, eight extrachromosomal linear plasmids, and a draft sequence for five circular and one linear plasmid of a Borrelia miyamotoi strain isolated from an Ixodes sp. tick from Connecticut, USA.