Draft Genome Sequence of Mycobacterium elephantis Strain Lipa

Alexander L Greninger; Gail Cunningham; Joanna M Yu; Elaine D Hsu; Charles Y Chiu; Steve Miller

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00691-15

Draft Genome Sequence of Mycobacterium elephantis Strain Lipa

Genome Announc. 2015 Jun 25;3(3):e00691-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00691-15.

Authors

Alexander L Greninger¹, Gail Cunningham¹, Joanna M Yu¹, Elaine D Hsu¹, Charles Y Chiu¹, Steve Miller²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Laboratory Medicine, UCSF, San Francisco, California, USA.
² Department of Laboratory Medicine, UCSF, San Francisco, California, USA steve.miller@ucsf.edu.

Abstract

We report the draft genome sequence of Mycobacterium elephantis strain Lipa from a sputum sample of a patient with pulmonary disease. This is the first draft genome sequence of M. elephantis, a rapidly growing mycobacterium.