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Volume 26, Number 11—November 2020
Dispatch

Two New Cases of Pulmonary Infection by Mycobacterium shigaense, Japan

Shiomi Yoshida1Comments to Author , Tomotada Iwamoto1, Takehiko Kobayashi1, Ryohei Nomoto, Yoshikazu Inoue, Kazunari Tsuyuguchi, and Katsuhiro Suzuki
Author affiliations: National Hospital Organization Kinki-chuo Chest Medical Center, Sakai, Osaka, Japan (S. Yoshida, T. Kobayashi, Y. Inoue, K. Tsuyuguchi, K. Suzuki); Kobe Institute of Health, Kobe, Japan (T. Iwamoto, R. Nomoto)

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Table 2

SNP detection using Mycobacterium shigaense JCM 32072T as reference genome for 2 strains isolated*

Strain no.
 No. SNPs
 Mapped region to reference genome†
 Pseudogenome by BactSNP, bases
Length, bases
 Coverage ratio
Case 2, NB-type, KC354 19 5,232,622 0.99999 5,182,569
Case 1, FC-type, KC8 6,826 5,200,032 0.99376 5,138,016

*SNPs called by BactSNP pipeline (9). FC, fibrocavitary; NB, nodular bronchiectasis; SNP, single-nucleotide polymorphism.
†Coverage depth is >5 at each position of the reference genome (5,232,660).

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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