Draft Genome Sequence of the Earliest Cronobacter sakazakii Sequence Type 4 Strain, NCIMB 8272

Naqash Masood; Karen Moore; Audrey Farbos; Sumyya Hariri; Konrad Paszkiewicz; Ben Dickins; Alan McNally; Stephen Forsythe

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00782-13

Draft Genome Sequence of the Earliest Cronobacter sakazakii Sequence Type 4 Strain, NCIMB 8272

Genome Announc. 2013 Sep 26;1(5):e00782-13. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00782-13.

Authors

Naqash Masood¹, Karen Moore, Audrey Farbos, Sumyya Hariri, Konrad Paszkiewicz, Ben Dickins, Alan McNally, Stephen Forsythe

Affiliation

¹ Pathogen Research Group, School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University, Clifton Lane, Nottingham, United Kingdom.

Abstract

The Cronobacter sakazakii clonal lineage defined as sequence type 4 (ST4) is associated with severe cases of neonatal meningitis and persistence in powdered infant formula. For genome sequencing of the earliest deposited culture collection strain of Cronobacter sakazakii ST4, we used the strain NCIMB 8272, originally isolated from milk powder in 1950.