Draft Whole-Genome Sequence of Haemophilus ducreyi Strain AUSPNG1, Isolated from a Cutaneous Ulcer of a Child from Papua New Guinea.

Dharanesh Gangaiah,Georgi K Marinov,Stanley M Spinola,Jenny Robson,Sally A Roberts

doi:10.1128/genomea.01661-15

Abstract

Haemophilus ducreyi has recently emerged as a leading cause of cutaneous ulcers in the yaws-endemic areas of Papua New Guinea and other South Pacific islands. Here, we report the draft genome sequence of the H. ducreyi strain AUSPNG1, isolated from a cutaneous ulcer of a child from Papua New Guinea.

Highlights

Haemophilus ducreyi has recently emerged as a leading cause of cutaneous ulcers in the yaws-endemic areas of Papua New Guinea and other South Pacific islands
By whole-genome sequence analysis, cutaneous ulcers (CU) strains from Samoa and Vanuatu are almost identical to the genital ulcer (GU) strain 35000HP, and CU strains form a subcluster within the class I clade of GU H. ducreyi [4]
We report the draft genome sequence of H. ducreyi AUSPNG1, which was isolated in 2013 from a CU of a 12-year-old boy from Papua New Guinea, who was treated in Brisbane, Australia

Summary

Introduction

Haemophilus ducreyi has recently emerged as a leading cause of cutaneous ulcers in the yaws-endemic areas of Papua New Guinea and other South Pacific islands. Haemophilus ducreyi causes the genital ulcer disease chancroid and has emerged as a leading cause of cutaneous ulcers (CU) in the yaws-endemic regions of the South Pacific islands and equatorial Africa [1,2,3]. By whole-genome sequence analysis, CU strains from Samoa and Vanuatu are almost identical to the genital ulcer (GU) strain 35000HP, and CU strains form a subcluster within the class I clade of GU H. ducreyi [4]. We report the draft genome sequence of H. ducreyi AUSPNG1, which was isolated in 2013 from a CU of a 12-year-old boy from Papua New Guinea, who was treated in Brisbane, Australia.

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