Draft Genome Sequence of a Mycobacterium avium Complex Isolate from a Broadbill Bird

Authors

John Bannantine, USDA ARS National Animal Disease CenterFollow
Darrell O. Bayles, USDA-ARS National Animal Disease CenterFollow
Suelee Robbe-Austerman, USDA-ARSFollow
Angela M. Burrell, Life Technologies, Austin
Judith R. Stabel, USDA-ARS, National Animal Disease CenterFollow

Date of this Version

2014

Citation

Bannantine JP, Bayles DO, Robbe-Austerman S, Burrell AM, Stabel JR. 2014. Draft genome sequence of a Mycobacterium avium complex isolate from a broadbill bird. Genome Announc. 2(1):e01268-13. doi:10.1128/genomeA.01268-13.

Comments

2014 Bannantine et al.

Abstract

Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) organisms cause opportunistic infections in humans, yet their epidemiology remains poorly understood. They are slowly growing environmental and animal-associated mycobacteria that have little notoriety except for the strains that cause disseminated infections in HIV- infected humans (1). Most MAC organisms are classified taxonomically as a single species, M. avium, which is divided into at least four subspecies, M. avium subsp. avium, M. avium subsp. hominissuis, M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis, and M. avium subsp. silvaticum (2). The only other species in this group is M. intracellulare. Genotyping of this diverse bacterial group has been achieved using intergenic spacers (3) and rpoB sequence analysis (4, 5).