Draft Whole-Genome Sequence of a Novel Chryseobacterium viscerum Strain Isolated from Fresh Water at Dripping Springs, New Mexico

Abstract

We sequenced the genome of a bacterial species recently isolated from fresh water at Dripping Springs, NM, and identified it as Chryseobacterium viscerum . This species had previously been isolated only from dead or diseased fish. This report shows that C. viscerum can be found in nature as a free-living species not associated with diseased fish.