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SUBMITTER: Hunyadkurti J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3165515 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hunyadkürti Judit J Feltóti Zsófia Z Horváth Balázs B Nagymihály Marianna M Vörös Andrea A McDowell Andrew A Patrick Sheila S Urbán Edit E Nagy István I
Journal of bacteriology 20110624 17
Propionibacterium acnes is an anaerobic Gram-positive bacterium that forms part of the normal human cutaneous microbiota and is thought to play a central role in acne vulgaris, a chronic inflammatory disease of the pilosebaceous unit (I. Kurokawa et al., Exp. Dermatol. 18:821-832, 2009). Here we present the whole genome sequence of P. acnes type IB strain 6609, which was recovered from a skin sample from a woman with no recorded acne history and is thus considered a nonpathogenic strain (I. Nagy ...[more]