Draft Genome Sequences of Five Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli Isolates Harboring the New and Recently Described Subtilase Cytotoxin Allelic Variant subAB2-3

Taurai Tasara; Lisa Fierz; Jochen Klumpp; Herbert Schmidt; Roger Stephan

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01582-16

Draft Genome Sequences of Five Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli Isolates Harboring the New and Recently Described Subtilase Cytotoxin Allelic Variant subAB_2-3

Genome Announc. 2017 Feb 23;5(8):e01582-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01582-16.

Authors

Taurai Tasara¹, Lisa Fierz¹, Jochen Klumpp², Herbert Schmidt³, Roger Stephan⁴

Affiliations

¹ Institute for Food Safety and Hygiene, Vetsuisse Faculty University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland.
² Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
³ Department of Food Microbiology and Hygiene, Institute of Food Science and Biotechnology, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany.
⁴ Institute for Food Safety and Hygiene, Vetsuisse Faculty University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland stephanr@fsafety.uzh.ch.

Abstract

We present here the draft genome sequences of five Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) strains which tested positive in a primary subAB screening. Assembly and annotation of the draft genomes revealed that all strains harbored the recently described allelic variant subAB_2-3 Based on the sequence data, primers were designed to identify and differentiate this variant.