Mycobacteroides abscessus strain:GZ002 (S) Genome sequencing. Mycobacteroides abscessus strain:GZ002 (S)

Mycobacterium abscessus is a nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) causes pulmonary infection in human. The treatment of this emerging pathogen is a major challenge because it is resistant to most of the antituberculous drugs and most of the antimicrobial agents. We obtained a Mycobacterium abscessus clinical isolate from the patient have the pulmonary infection in south China. This clinical isolate showed two phenotype variants i.e smooth and rough. In our study, we sequenced the genome of both phenotype variants using SMRT sequencing technology. The significance of this study will facilitate to understand pathonenicity of this emerging pathogen at genome level.