Complete Genome Sequences of Four Toxigenic Clostridium difficile Clinical Isolates from Patients of the Lower Hudson Valley, New York, USA

Changhong Yin; Donald S Chen; Jian Zhuge; Donna McKenna; Joan Sagurton; Guiqing Wang; Weihua Huang; Nevenka Dimitrova; John T Fallon

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01537-17

Complete Genome Sequences of Four Toxigenic Clostridium difficile Clinical Isolates from Patients of the Lower Hudson Valley, New York, USA

Genome Announc. 2018 Jan 25;6(4):e01537-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01537-17.

Authors

Changhong Yin¹, Donald S Chen², Jian Zhuge³, Donna McKenna², Joan Sagurton⁴, Guiqing Wang^{5

3}, Weihua Huang⁵, Nevenka Dimitrova⁶, John T Fallon^{5

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pathology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, USA changhong_yin@nymc.edu.
² Department of Infection Prevention and Control, Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, New York, USA.
³ Department of Pathology and Clinical Laboratories, Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, New York, USA.
⁴ Department of Microbiology, Orange Regional Medical Center, Middletown, New York, USA.
⁵ Department of Pathology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, USA.
⁶ Philips Healthcare North America, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

Abstract

Complete genome sequences of four toxigenic Clostridium difficile isolates from patients in the lower Hudson Valley, New York, USA, were achieved. These isolates represent four common sequence types (ST1, ST2, ST8, and ST42) belonging to two distinct phylogenetic clades. All isolates have a 4.0- to 4.2-Mb circular chromosome, and one carries a phage.