Abstract

ABSTRACTIn 1988, an outbreak of anthrax occurred among cattle in the Austrian state of Tyrol. Since then, Austria has been declared anthrax-free. Here, we report the draft genome sequence of one of these last outbreak strains, Bacillus anthracis Tyrol 4675, isolated from a diseased cow.

Highlights

  • In 1988, an outbreak of anthrax occurred among cattle in the Austrian state of Tyrol

  • Whole-genome shotgun (WGS) sequencing of B. anthracis Tyrol 4675 was performed by Illumina MiSeq sequencing technology (Illumina, Inc.) using Nextera version 3 with 2 ϫ 300-bp chemistry

  • For the WGS library, 2 ϫ 813,272 reads accumulating to a total of 464 Mb were generated

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Summary

Introduction

In 1988, an outbreak of anthrax occurred among cattle in the Austrian state of Tyrol. Whole-genome shotgun (WGS) sequencing of B. anthracis Tyrol 4675 was performed by Illumina MiSeq sequencing technology (Illumina, Inc.) using Nextera version 3 with 2 ϫ 300-bp chemistry. For the WGS library, 2 ϫ 813,272 reads accumulating to a total of 464 Mb were generated.

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