Genome Sequences of 228 Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli Isolates and 12 Isolates Representing Other Diarrheagenic E. coli Pathotypes

Eija Trees; Nancy Strockbine; Shankar Changayil; Satishkumar Ranganathan; Kun Zhao; Ryan Weil; Duncan MacCannell; Ashley Sabol; Amber Schmidtke; Haley Martin; Devon Stripling; Efrain M Ribot; Peter Gerner-Smidt

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00718-14

Genome Sequences of 228 Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli Isolates and 12 Isolates Representing Other Diarrheagenic E. coli Pathotypes

Genome Announc. 2014 Aug 7;2(4):e00718-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00718-14.

Affiliations

¹ Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA eih9@cdc.gov.
² Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
³ Office of Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Abstract

Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) are a common cause for food-borne diarrheal illness outbreaks and sporadic cases. Here, we report the availability of the draft genome sequences of 228 STEC strains representing 32 serotypes with known pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) types and epidemiological relationships, as well as 12 strains representing other diarrheagenic E. coli pathotypes.