PacBio Genome Sequences of Eight Escherichia albertii Strains Isolated from Humans in the United States

Rebecca L Lindsey; Lori A Rowe; Dhwani Batra; Peyton Smith; Nancy A Strockbine

doi:10.1128/MRA.01663-18

PacBio Genome Sequences of Eight Escherichia albertii Strains Isolated from Humans in the United States

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 Feb 28;8(9):e01663-18. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01663-18. eCollection 2019 Feb.

Authors

Rebecca L Lindsey¹, Lori A Rowe², Dhwani Batra², Peyton Smith¹, Nancy A Strockbine¹

Affiliations

¹ Enteric Diseases Laboratory Branch, Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
² Biotechnology Core Facility Branch, Division of Scientific Resources, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Abstract

Escherichia albertii is an emerging pathogen that is closely related to Escherichia coli and can carry some of the same virulence genes as E. coli. Here, we report the release of Illumina-corrected PacBio sequences for eight E. albertii genomes. Two of these strains carry Shiga toxin 2f.