Whole-Genome Sequence of French Clinical Peptoniphilus catoniae Strain P8546
Hussein Anani1,2, Issam Hasni2,3, Rita Zgheib1,2
1Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Service de Santé des Armées, AP-HM, UMR Vecteurs Infections Tropicales et Méditerranéennes (VITROME), Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Méditerranée Infection, Aix Marseille Université, Marseille, France.
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Abstract:
In 2016, Peptoniphilus catoniae was reported as a bacterial species isolated from a healthy Peruvian male. In 2018, a clinical strain from the same species was isolated from the stool of a French patient with kidney cancer. The genome of this strain, P8546, was 1,725,465 bp long, with 33.4% G+C content.
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