title: Genome of Ochrobactrum anthropi ATCC 49188 T, a versatile opportunistic pathogen and symbiont of several eukaryotic hosts.
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.
authors.affiliation: Genome Science Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87544, USA.
authors.forename: Patrick S G
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Chain
authors.forename: Dorothy M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Lang
authors.forename: Diego J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Comerci
authors.forename: Stephanie A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Malfatti
authors.forename: Lisa M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Vergez
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shin
authors.forename: Rodolfo A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Ugalde
authors.forename: Emilio
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Garcia
authors.forename: Marcelo E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Tolmasky
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D016680:Genome, Bacterial; D016905:Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D020621:Ochrobactrum anthropi / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics*; D013559:Symbiosis