Draft Genome Sequence of Mycobacterium pseudoshottsii Strain JCM15466T. Mycobacterium pseudoshottsii strain:JCM 15466

Mycobacterium pseudoshottsii is a slowly growing photochromogenic mycobacterium, and a fish pathogen isolated from wild marine fishes. M. pseudoshottsii is very resemble to M. marinum, which are human and animal pathogens. In 2005, M. pseudoshottsii was initially isolated from striped bass (Morone saxatilis) at Chesapeake Bay, USA. However, both range of host species and area of disease distribution have expanded to a variety of fishes and locations. Of the several Mycobacterium genus isolated from fish, it has been suggested that M. marinum, M. shottsii, M. pseudoshottsii and Mycobacterium sp. are closely related species based on molecular phylogenetic analysis using 16S ribosomal RNA, hsp65 and rpoB genes and ITS region. M. pseudoshottsii strain JCM15466T causes the same disease as reported in striped bass from the Chesapeake Bay. This strain JCM15466T (RIKEN Japan type strain) is also named as L15T (original strain), ATCC BAA-883 (USA), NCTC 13318 (UK) and DSM 45108 (Germany).