Draft Genome Sequences of Five Enterococcus Species Isolated from the Gut of Patients with Suspected Clostridium difficile Infection

Eduardo Castro-Nallar; Sandro L Valenzuela; Sebastián Baquedano; Carolina Sánchez; Fabiola Fernández; Annette N Trombert

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00379-17

Draft Genome Sequences of Five Enterococcus Species Isolated from the Gut of Patients with Suspected Clostridium difficile Infection

Genome Announc. 2017 May 18;5(20):e00379-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00379-17.

Authors

Eduardo Castro-Nallar¹, Sandro L Valenzuela¹, Sebastián Baquedano², Carolina Sánchez³, Fabiola Fernández³, Annette N Trombert⁴

Affiliations

¹ Center for Bioinformatics and Integrative Biology, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Andrés Bello, Santiago, Chile.
² Escuela de Tecnología Médica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Mayor, Huechuraba, Santiago, Chile.
³ Centro de Genómica y Bioinformática, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Mayor, Santiago, Chile.
⁴ Centro de Genómica y Bioinformática, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Mayor, Santiago, Chile annette.trombert@umayor.cl.

Abstract

We present draft genome sequences of five Enterococcus species from patients suspected of Clostridium difficile infection. Genome completeness was confirmed by presence of bacterial orthologs (97%). Gene searches using Hidden-Markov models revealed that the isolates harbor between seven and 11 genes involved in antibiotic resistance to tetracyclines, beta-lactams, and vancomycin.