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Whole-Genome Sequencing of Aspergillus terreus Species Complex

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Aspergillus terreus species complex is an opportunistic fungal pathogen increasingly implicated in invasive infection, as well as chronic respiratory disease. Currently, an understanding of A. terreus pathogenicity is impeded by a limited number of whole-genome sequences of this fungal pathogen. We here describe a high-quality whole-genome assembly of European A. terreus clinical isolate M6925, derived by single-molecule real-time sequencing with short-read polishing.

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  1. Mathangi Palanivel and Micheál Mac Aogáin have contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, 11 Mandalay Road, Singapore, 308232, Singapore

    Mathangi Palanivel, Micheál Mac Aogáin & Sanjay H. Chotirmall

  2. Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

    Rikky W. Purbojati, Akira Uchida, Ngu War Aung, Serene B. Y. Lim, Alexander Putra, Daniela I. Drautz-Moses & Stephan C. Schuster

  3. UK NEQAS for Microbiology, Products and Services, National Infection Service, Public Health England, London, UK

    Shila Seaton

  4. Department of Clinical Microbiology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

    Thomas R. Rogers

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MP, MMA, TR, SCS, SHC: conception, literature review, manuscript writing and editing; SS and TRR: provision, isolation and identification of strain; MP, MMA, RWP, AU, NWA, SL, AP, DDM, SS and TRR: experimental work, sequencing and analysis and manuscript editing.

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Palanivel, M., Mac Aogáin, M., Purbojati, R.W. et al. Whole-Genome Sequencing of Aspergillus terreus Species Complex. Mycopathologia 185, 405–408 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11046-020-00433-0

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