Draft Genome Sequence of blaNDM-1-Positive Escherichia coli O25b-ST131 Clone Isolated from an Environmental Sample

Kirthi K Kutumbaka; Sukkyun Han; James Mategko; Cesar Nadala; Genevieve L Buser; Maureen P Cassidy; Zintars G Beldavs; Scott J Weissman; Karim E Morey; Robert Vega; Mansour Samadpour

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00462-14

Draft Genome Sequence of blaNDM-1-Positive Escherichia coli O25b-ST131 Clone Isolated from an Environmental Sample

Genome Announc. 2014 May 29;2(3):e00462-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00462-14.

Affiliations

¹ Institute for Environmental Health (IEH), Lake Forest Park, Washington, USA.
² Oregon Public Health Division, Portland, Oregon, USA.
³ Division of Infectious Diseases, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, USA.
⁴ Oregon State Public Health Laboratory, Hillsboro, Oregon, USA.
⁵ Institute for Environmental Health (IEH), Lake Forest Park, Washington, USA ms@iehinc.com.

Abstract

A multidrug-resistant NDM-1 carbapenamase-producing Escherichia coli sequence type 131 (ST131) organism was obtained from vacuum cleaner dust collected from the home of a case patient. Here, we report the assembly and annotation of its genome.