Genome Sequence and Annotation of a Human Infection Isolate of Escherichia coli O26:H11 Involved in a Raw Milk Cheese Outbreak

Wessam Galia; Patricia Mariani-Kurkdjian; Estelle Loukiadis; Stéphanie Blanquet-Diot; Françoise Leriche; Hubert Brugère; Ayaka Shima; Eric Oswald; Benoit Cournoyer; Delphine Thevenot-Sergentet

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01568-14

Genome Sequence and Annotation of a Human Infection Isolate of Escherichia coli O26:H11 Involved in a Raw Milk Cheese Outbreak

Genome Announc. 2015 Feb 19;3(1):e01568-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01568-14.

Authors

Wessam Galia¹, Patricia Mariani-Kurkdjian², Estelle Loukiadis, Stéphanie Blanquet-Diot³, Françoise Leriche⁴, Hubert Brugère, Ayaka Shima, Eric Oswald, Benoit Cournoyer⁵, Delphine Thevenot-Sergentet

Affiliations

¹ wessam.galia@vetagro-sup.fr.
² Laboratory associated with the National Reference Centre for Escherichia coli and Shigella, Robert Debré Hospital, Paris, France.
³ Clermont Université, Université d'Auvergne, Centre de Recherche en Nutrition Humaine Auvergne, EA 4678 CIDAM, BP 10448, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
⁴ Université de Clermont-Ferrand, VetAgro Sup, Campus Agronomique de Lempdes, Unité CALYTISS, Lempdes, France.
⁵ Université de Lyon, Research Group on Bacterial Opportunistic Pathogens and Environment, UMR 5557 Ecologie Microbienne, CNRS, VetAgro Sup, and Université Lyon 1, Lyon, France.

Abstract

The consumption of raw milk cheese can expose populations to Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC). We report here the genome sequence of an E. coli O26:H11 strain isolated from humans during the first raw milk cheese outbreak described in France (2005).