Complete genome assemblies of three highly prevalent, toxigenic clostridioides difficile strains causing health care-associated infections in Australia

Authors

Keeley O'Grady
Thomas V. Riley, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
Daniel R. Knight

Document Type

Other

Publication Title

Microbiology Resource Announcements

Volume

10

Issue

31

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

School

School of Medical and Health Sciences

RAS ID

38839

Funders

Australian Government National Health and Medical Research Council

Grant Number

NHMRC Number : APP1138257

Grant Link

http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1138257

Comments

O’Grady, K., Riley, T. V., & Knight, D. R. (2021). Complete genome assemblies of three highly prevalent, toxigenic clostridioides difficile strains causing health care-associated infections in Australia. Microbiology Resource Announcements, 10(31), article e00599-21. https://doi.org/10.1128/MRA.00599-21

Abstract

Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) is the leading cause of life-threatening health care-related gastrointestinal illness worldwide. Phylogenetically appropriate closed reference genomes are essential for studies of C. difficile transmission and evolution. Here, we provide high-quality complete hybrid genome assemblies for the three most prevalent C. difficile strains causing CDI in Australia.

DOI

10.1128/MRA.00599-21

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