Whole-Genome Sequencing of a Campylobacter jejuni Strain Isolated from Retail Chicken Meat Reveals the Presence of a Megaplasmid with Mu-Like Prophage and Multidrug Resistance Genes

Daya Marasini; Mohamed K Fakhr

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00460-16

Whole-Genome Sequencing of a Campylobacter jejuni Strain Isolated from Retail Chicken Meat Reveals the Presence of a Megaplasmid with Mu-Like Prophage and Multidrug Resistance Genes

Genome Announc. 2016 May 26;4(3):e00460-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00460-16.

Authors

Daya Marasini¹, Mohamed K Fakhr²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biological Science, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.
² Department of Biological Science, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA mohamed-fakhr@utulsa.edu.

Abstract

Genome sequencing of Campylobacter jejuni strain T1-21 isolated from retail chicken meat revealed the presence of a chromosome of 1,565,978 bp and a megaplasmid of 82,732 bp that contains Mu-like prophage and multidrug resistance genes. This is the first reported sequence of a Campylobacter megaplasmid >55 kb.