title: Whole-genome sequences of four Mycobacterium bovis BCG vaccine strains.
abstract: Mycobacterium bovis Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is the only vaccine available against tuberculosis (TB). A number of BCG strains are in use, and they exhibit biochemical and genetic differences. We report the genome sequences of four BCG strains representing different lineages, which will help to design more effective TB vaccines.
authors.affiliation: Microbial Genome Research Center, CAS Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, People’s Republic of China.
authors.forename: Yuanlong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Pan
authors.forename: Xi
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Jia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Duan
authors.forename: Na
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: Andrea S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Leung
authors.forename: Vanessa
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Tran
authors.forename: Yongfei
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: Na
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Di
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Zhiming
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Xuping
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Chen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Yuanyuan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Kanglin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Wan
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Baoli
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Zhu
mesh_terms: D001500:BCG Vaccine; D017353:Gene Deletion; D020440:Gene Duplication; D015964:Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial / Q000502:physiology; D014644:Genetic Variation; D016680:Genome, Bacterial; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009163:Mycobacterium bovis / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D001500:BCG Vaccine