Open AccessHigh-Quality Draft Genome Sequences for Four Drug-Resistant or Outbreak-Associated Shigella sonnei Strains Generated with PacBio Sequencing and Whole-Genome Maps
Author(s) -
Rebecca L. Lindsey,
Dhwani Batra,
Lori A. Rowe,
Vladimir N. Loparev,
Phalasy Juieng,
Lisley Garcia-Toledo,
Amelia Bicknese,
Devon Stripling,
Haley Martin,
Jessica Chen,
Nancy Strockbine,
Eija Trees
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
genome announcements
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2169-8287
DOI - 10.1128/genomea.00906-17
Subject(s) - shigella sonnei , biology , outbreak , genome , whole genome sequencing , dna sequencing , shigella , genetics , microbiology and biotechnology , computational biology , virology , dna , gene , escherichia coli
Drug-resistantShigella sonnei poses a clinical and public health challenge. We report here the high-quality draft whole-genome sequences of four outbreak-associatedS. sonnei isolates; three were resistant to two or more antibiotics, and one was resistant to streptomycin only.
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