Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain:NZ494 Genome sequencing and assembly. Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain:NZ494

In 2001, an analysis of an outbreak of tuberculosis (TB) in New Zealand which occurred between November 1996 and May 2000 was performed. 43 of the 61 TB cases were confirmed as belonging to the outbreak based on IS6110-based restriction-fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) typing of the isolates, with the remaining 18 cases determined by epidemiological contact tracing. One of the patients had served a prison sentence in the Tongariro/Rangipo Prison in 1998 and as a result, the outbreak strain became referred to as the ‘Rangipo’ strain. To better understand the Rangipo genotype of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC), genomic DNA of a representative isolate was sequenced using an Illumina® MiSeq instrument and a draft genome assembled.