Pythium insidiosum
Pythium insidiosum is the causative agent of pythiosis, a life-threatening disease for humans and animals in tropical and subtropical regions that is poorly responsive to therapy. For humans, it is mainly reported in Southeast Asia and is being considered an emerging condition in the United States. Our research focus is to investigate evolutionary, functional, and diagnostic insights through a comparative genomic analysis across major mammalian pathogenic oomycetes, including genomic data from P.insidiosum. Pythium insidiosum strains were isolated from animal patients with pythiosis. Identification of the organism was performed by microbiological culture and homology analysis of rDNA sequence. Genome sequencing was carried out on the resultant gDNA utilizing combination of the Illumina MiSeq platform, and MinION by Oxford Nanopore Technologies, folowed by de Novo assembly and annotation.
strain
24157011-1
collection_date
2024-06-05/2024-10-08
env_broad_scale
host-associated
env_local_scale
Canis lupus familiaris
env_medium
room temperature in sterile container
geo_loc_name
USA: Texas|Floroda
host
Canis lupus familiaris
isol_growth_condt
trypticase soy agar supplemented with 5% sheeps blood plate, incubated at 35C 2C in a 5% carbon dioxide atmosphere; Sabouraudagar plate and incubation at room temperature; Columbia blood agar, incubation at 35C for 48 to 72 hours
lat_lon
missing
host_age
7 years
host_common_name
Labrador Retriever|Quarterhorse
host_sex
female
host_tissue_sampled
skin
BioSampleModel
MIGS.eu
BioSampleModel
MIGS/MIMS/MIMARKS.host-associated