Draft Genome Sequence of an NDM-1-Producing Sequence Type 101 (ST101) Klebsiella pneumoniae Strain, Marseille-Q1949

Amanda Chamieh (1) , Rita Zgheib (2) , Sabah El-Sawalhi (1) , Eid Azar (3) , Jean-Marc Rolain (1)

1 MEPHI - Microbes évolution phylogénie et infections
2 VITROME - Vecteurs - Infections tropicales et méditerranéennes
3 UOB - University of Balamand [Liban]

A pan-drug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae strain was isolated from the blood of a 70-year-old critically ill patient in April 2019. Interestingly, the patient recovered and was discharged home a month later. The genome of strain Marseille-Q1949 is 5,607,584-bp long and has a 57.1% G+C content and 5,467 protein-coding genes.

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Amanda Chamieh, Rita Zgheib, Sabah El-Sawalhi, Eid Azar, Jean-Marc Rolain. Draft Genome Sequence of an NDM-1-Producing Sequence Type 101 (ST101) Klebsiella pneumoniae Strain, Marseille-Q1949. Microbiology Resource Announcements, 2021, 10 (27), ⟨10.1128/MRA.00437-21⟩. ⟨hal-03333767⟩