Complete Genome Sequence of Escherichia coli Phage vB_EcoS Sa179lw, Isolated from Surface Water in a Produce-Growing Area in Northern California

Yen-Te Liao; Fang Liu; Xincheng Sun; Robert W Li; Vivian C H Wu

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00337-18

Complete Genome Sequence of Escherichia coli Phage vB_EcoS Sa179lw, Isolated from Surface Water in a Produce-Growing Area in Northern California

Genome Announc. 2018 Jul 5;6(27):e00337-18. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00337-18.

Authors

Yen-Te Liao¹, Fang Liu^{1

2}, Xincheng Sun^{1

3

4}, Robert W Li⁵, Vivian C H Wu⁶

Affiliations

¹ Produce Safety and Microbiology Research Unit, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Western Regional Research Center, Albany, California, USA.
² College of Food Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China.
³ College of Food and Biological Engineering, Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, Zhengzhou, China.
⁴ Collaborative Innovation Center of Food Production and Safety, Zhengzhou, China.
⁵ Animal Genomics and Improvement Laboratory, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville, Maryland, USA.
⁶ Produce Safety and Microbiology Research Unit, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Western Regional Research Center, Albany, California, USA vivian.wu@ars.usda.gov.

Abstract

We report here the whole-genome sequence of a novel Escherichia coli phage, vB_EcoS Sa179lw, isolated from surface water collected in a produce-growing area. With the presence of a putative eae-like gene that was associated with previous non-O157 Shiga toxin-producing E. coli outbreaks, this phage is a candidate for the study of virulence gene transfer.