Draft Genome Sequence of Tannerella forsythia Clinical Isolate 9610
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Sesha Hanson-Drury1, Thao T To2, Quanhui Liu2
1University of Washington School of Dentistry, Seattle, Washington, USA.
Genome Announcements
|March 25, 2017
Abstract:
We present here the draft genome sequence of Tannerella forsythia 9610, a clinical isolate obtained from a periodontitis patient. The genome is composed of 79 scaffolds with 82 contigs, for a length of 3,201,941 bp and a G+C of 47.3%.
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