Draft Genome Sequences of Acinetobacter baumannii Strains Harboring the blaNDM-1 Gene Isolated in Lebanon from Civilians Wounded during the Syrian Civil War

Sima Tokajian; Jonathan A Eisen; Guillaume Jospin; Monzer Hamze; Rayane Rafei; Tamara Salloum; Joe Ibrahim; David A Coil

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01678-15

Draft Genome Sequences of Acinetobacter baumannii Strains Harboring the blaNDM-1 Gene Isolated in Lebanon from Civilians Wounded during the Syrian Civil War

Genome Announc. 2016 Jan 28;4(1):e01678-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01678-15.

Authors

Sima Tokajian¹, Jonathan A Eisen², Guillaume Jospin², Monzer Hamze³, Rayane Rafei³, Tamara Salloum⁴, Joe Ibrahim⁴, David A Coil²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Natural Sciences, Lebanese American University, School of Arts and Sciences, Byblos, Lebanon stokajian@lau.edu.lb.
² University of California Davis Genome Center, Davis, California, USA.
³ Health and Environmental Microbiology Laboratory, Azm Centre for Biotechnology, Doctoral School for Sciences and Technology-Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon.
⁴ Department of Natural Sciences, Lebanese American University, School of Arts and Sciences, Byblos, Lebanon.

Abstract

We present here the draft genome sequences of multidrug-resistant blaNDM-1-positive Acinetobacter baumannii strains ACMH-6200 and ACMH-6201, isolated in north Lebanon from civilians wounded during the Syrian civil war. The draft genomes were contained in 217 contigs for ACMH-6200 and 83 contigs for ACMH-6201, including a combined 3,997,237 bases for ACMH-6200 and 3,983,110 bases for ACMH-6201, with 39% and 38.9% G+C content, respectively.