Comparative genomic analysis of a Colombian strain of serogroup Autumnalis serovar Alice and inference of its virulence factors.

Introduction: The study aimed to characterize the genome of a Colombian strain of to infer bacterial virulence factors.

Materials And Methods: Under the approach of a quantitative research, an isolate of Colombian origin of was sequenced using new generation 454 GS FLX Titanium sequencers. Subsequently, bioinformatics programs were used for the physical description of the genome (number of genes, size), open reading frame prediction, prediction of proteins and their orthologs in other pathogenic species, of intermediate pathogenicity and non-pathogenic, cellular localization of proteins.