Complete Genome Sequences of Salmonella enterica Serovar Heidelberg Strains Associated with a Multistate Food-Borne Illness Investigation

Peter S Evans; Yan Luo; Tim Muruvanda; Sherry Ayers; Brian Hiatt; Maria Hoffman; Shaohua Zhao; Marc W Allard; Eric W Brown

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01154-13

Complete Genome Sequences of Salmonella enterica Serovar Heidelberg Strains Associated with a Multistate Food-Borne Illness Investigation

Genome Announc. 2014 Jun 5;2(3):e01154-13. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01154-13.

Authors

Peter S Evans¹, Yan Luo², Tim Muruvanda³, Sherry Ayers⁴, Brian Hiatt⁵, Maria Hoffman⁴, Shaohua Zhao⁴, Marc W Allard³, Eric W Brown³

Affiliations

¹ Division of Microbiology, Office of Regulatory Science, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, College Park, Maryland, USA peter.evans@fda.hhs.gov.
² Division of Public Health Informatics and Analytics, Office of Analytics and Outreach, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, College Park, Maryland, USA.
³ Division of Microbiology, Office of Regulatory Science, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, College Park, Maryland, USA.
⁴ Division of Animal and Food Microbiology, Office of Research, Center for Veterinary Medicine, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Laurel, Maryland, USA.
⁵ Washington State Department of Health Public Health Laboratories, Shoreline, Washington, USA.

Abstract

Next-generation sequencing is being evaluated for use with food-borne illness investigations, especially when the outbreak strains produce patterns that cannot be discriminated from non-outbreak strains using conventional procedures. Here we report complete genome assemblies of two Salmonella enterica serovar Heidelberg strains with a common pulsed-field gel electrophoresis pattern isolated during an outbreak investigation.