Draft Genome Sequencing of Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor Isolates Collected in the Russian Federation from Imported Cholera Cases

Konstantin V Kuleshov; Sergey O Vodop'ianov; Vladimir G Dedkov; Mikhail L Markelov; Anton V Kermanov; Vladimir D Kruglikov; Alexey S Vodop'ianov; Ruslan V Pisanov; Olga S Chemisova; Alexey B Mazrukho; Svetlana V Titova; German A Shipulin

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00624-14

Draft Genome Sequencing of Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor Isolates Collected in the Russian Federation from Imported Cholera Cases

Genome Announc. 2014 Jul 17;2(4):e00624-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00624-14.

Affiliations

¹ Federal Budget Institute of Science Central Research Institute for Epidemiology, Moscow, Russia konstantinkul@gmail.com.
² Federal Government Health Institution Rostov-on-Don Plague Control Research Institute, Rostov-on-Don, Russia.
³ Federal Budget Institute of Science Central Research Institute for Epidemiology, Moscow, Russia.
⁴ Institute of Occupational Health RAMS, Moscow, Russia.

Abstract

We report the draft genome sequencing of five Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor clinical isolates collected in the Russian Federation from imported cholera cases in 2006, 2010, and 2012. In the initial phylogenetic analysis, one isolate clustered with the Haiti/Nepal-4 group.