Clinical metagenomic identification of Balamuthia mandrillaris encephalitis and assembly of the draft genome: the continuing case for reference genome sequencing

Table 1 Strains used in this study

Strain	Date	Location	Note	Citation
SAM^a	Spring 2001	California	3-year-old girl, cultured on Vero cells	Bakardjiev A et al., 2002 [55]
RP-5^a	Spring 2001	California	Environmental sample associated with SAm, cultured on Vero cells	Schuster FL et al., 2003 [5]
OK1^a	2002	California	Environmental sample in NorCal unrelated to SAm, cultured on Vero cells	Dunnebacke TH et al., 2004 [56]
V039^b	1990	California	Type strain isolated from pregnant mandrill at San Diego Zoo, cultured on Vero cells	Visvesvara GS et al., 1990 [4]
V188^a	1989	Georgia	59-year-old man, amoeba isolated from brain/skin lesion, cultured on Vero cells	Gordon SM et al., 1992 [57]
V451^a	-	New York	6-year-old girl, cultured on Vero cells	Yang XH et al., 2001 [58]
2046^a	March 2010	California	26-year-old man, survivor, cultured on Vero cells	Vollmer and Glaser, in review
CSF108^c	May 2015	Colorado	15-year-old girl, direct metagenomic detection from CSF

^aStrain provided by Dr. Dunnebacke at the California Department of Public Health
^bStrain obtained from ATCC (V39)
^cStrain obtained from recent clinical case in Colorado

ISSN: 1756-994X