High-Quality Whole-Genome Sequences for 21 Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli Strains Generated with PacBio Sequencing

Peyton Smith; Rebecca L Lindsey; Lori A Rowe; Dhwani Batra; Devon Stripling; Lisley Garcia-Toledo; Daniel Drapeau; Kristen Knipe; Nancy Strockbine

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01311-17

High-Quality Whole-Genome Sequences for 21 Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli Strains Generated with PacBio Sequencing

Genome Announc. 2018 Jan 11;6(2):e01311-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01311-17.

Authors

Peyton Smith^{1

2}, Rebecca L Lindsey³, Lori A Rowe¹, Dhwani Batra¹, Devon Stripling¹, Lisley Garcia-Toledo^{1

2}, Daniel Drapeau^{1

2}, Kristen Knipe¹, Nancy Strockbine¹

Affiliations

¹ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
² Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA.
³ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA rebecca.lindsey@cdc.hhs.gov.

Abstract

Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) is an important diarrheagenic pathogen. We report here the high-quality whole-genome sequences of 21 ETEC strains isolated from patients in the United States, international diarrheal surveillance studies, and cruise ship outbreaks.