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Genome of Ochrobactrum anthropi ATCC 49188(T), a Versatile Opportunistic Pathogen and Symbiont of Several Eukaryotic Hosts

Published in:

Journal of Bacteriology 193(16) , 4274-4275 (Aug 2011)

Author(s):

Chain, P. S. G., Lang, D. M., Comerci, D. J., Malfatti, S. A., Vergez, L. M., Shin, M., Ugalde, R. A., Garcia, E., Tolmasky, M. E.

DOI:

Doi 10.1128/Jb.05335-11

Abstract:

Ochrobactrum anthropi is a common soil alphaproteobacterium that colonizes a wide spectrum of organisms and is being increasingly recognized as an opportunistic human pathogen. Potentially life-threatening infections, such as endocarditis, are included in the list of reported O. anthropi infections. These reports, together with the scant number of studies and the organism’s phylogenetic proximity to the highly pathogenic brucellae, make O. anthropi an attractive model of bacterial pathogenicity. Here we report the genome sequence of the type strain O. anthropi ATCC 49188, which revealed the presence of two chromosomes and four plasmids.

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