Complete Genome Sequence of Enteroinvasive Escherichia coli O96:H19 Associated with a Severe Foodborne Outbreak

Emily A Pettengill; Maria Hoffmann; Rachel Binet; Richard J Roberts; Justin Payne; Marc Allard; Valeria Michelacci; Fabio Minelli; Stefano Morabito

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00883-15

Complete Genome Sequence of Enteroinvasive Escherichia coli O96:H19 Associated with a Severe Foodborne Outbreak

Genome Announc. 2015 Aug 6;3(4):e00883-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00883-15.

Authors

Emily A Pettengill¹, Maria Hoffmann¹, Rachel Binet², Richard J Roberts³, Justin Payne¹, Marc Allard¹, Valeria Michelacci⁴, Fabio Minelli⁴, Stefano Morabito⁴

Affiliations

¹ Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Division of Microbiology, Office of Regulatory Science, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, College Park, Maryland, USA.
² Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Division of Microbiology, Office of Regulatory Science, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, College Park, Maryland, USA rachel.binet@fda.hhs.gov.
³ New England BioLabs, Inc., Ipswich, Massachusetts, USA.
⁴ EU Reference Laboratory for Escherichia coli, Department of Veterinary Public Health and Food Safety, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.

Abstract

We present here the complete genome sequence of a strain of enteroinvasive Escherichia coli O96:H19 from a severe foodborne outbreak in a canteen in Italy in 2014. The complete genome may provide important information about the acquired pathogenicity of this strain and the transition between commensal and pathogenic E. coli.

Grants and funding

R44 GM105125/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States